What drives the price, and what a quote needs to contain.
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Because the market for it is smaller and the supply is less concentrated. White marble has global demand and a dozen large suppliers; coffee wood grain is a regional Chinese stone with a mostly domestic and Middle Eastern buyer base, so the price reflects volume rather than quality.
Because the name covers several beds and the beds are not interchangeable, and because the freight is calculated from different ports. Two quotations under the same name can be two different stones at two different delivered costs, and neither is wrong until you ask which bed and which port.
We do not publish a price, and a published stone price is not a price anyway. What decides it is the bed, the thickness, the finish, the size of the order and the port — and a quotation without those five is not a quotation for anything.
Coffee wood grain is normally cheaper, and the reason is demand rather than quality. White marble has a global market and many large suppliers; coffee wood grain is a regional Chinese stone with a narrower buyer base, and it is quoted by whoever has a block on the ground.
Tile, laid on a sound substrate. 10 and 12 millimetre tile at 300 by 300 and 600 by 600 is the lowest cost way to get this figure into a room, because the substrate carries the load and the stone does not have to be thick.
The bed and block number, the form, the thickness, the finish, the quantity, the port and the delivery term. A quotation that does not carry the block number is a quotation for whatever is available, and it cannot be compared with another one.
Quote per square metre of finished product, per piece, against a numbered drawing, with the block number, the thickness, the finish and the port stated. A quotation that cannot be compared with another one is not a quotation — it is an offer.
We do not publish a container price, and a published one would not be a price you could buy at, because the thickness, the bed, the grade and the port all move it. What we will do is quote a container against a specification.
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