Why do coffee wood marble prices change between suppliers?
Reference photographs. They show the material and the finish; they are not photographs of goods we made, and the colour on screen is not a colour-match.
The figures, and where each one comes from
| What to ask for | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| The block number | Identifies the bed and the batch |
| The port of loading | Shuitou and Xiamen are not the same cost to most destinations |
| The bed and thickness | The bed decides the yield; the thickness decides the freight |
| Whether the price is per square metre of slab or of net usable | The difference on a cut-to-size order is large |
Why it behaves the way it does
A marble quote has four moving parts and a buyer comparing two of them is usually comparing two of the four. The number that makes the comparison possible is the block number, and a quotation without one cannot be checked against anything that arrives.
What these figures are, and what they are not
We do not publish a price. We will quote against a specification, and the specification we need is the form, the thickness, the finish and the quantity.
If you are specifying this
We have not published products against this question yet. Send us the process, thickness and quantity and we will quote it against what we can actually form, rather than against a catalogue.
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.
The figures
| What to ask for | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| The block number | Identifies the bed and the batch |
| The port of loading | Shuitou and Xiamen are not the same cost to most destinations |
| The bed and thickness | The bed decides the yield; the thickness decides the freight |
| Whether the price is per square metre of slab or of net usable | The difference on a cut-to-size order is large |
Why
A marble quote has four moving parts and a buyer comparing two of them is usually comparing two of the four. The number that makes the comparison possible is the block number, and a quotation without one cannot be checked against anything that arrives.
What these figures are, and what they are not
We do not publish a price. We will quote against a specification, and the specification we need is the form, the thickness, the finish and the quantity.