01-25-2016, 10:20 PM
mrlynn wrote:
[quote=Black]
[quote=mrlynn]
[quote=decay]
But this isn't a case of inflation-related price increase, is it?
it's directly related to federal mandated efficiency.
I don't think we can attribute all the increase to fed mandates, though they are certainly a factor—nothing is better at driving up prices than the feds making rules. But the labor is also a very big part, methinks.
/Mr Lynn
There are so few players left in that game that price fixing is pretty much guaranteed to play some role.
You mean manufacturers? Yes, there are apparently only three, making units that sell under different brand names. But there does seem to be a good distribution of prices at retail. And if you mean plumbers, there is no shortage of them in our area. That there was a $250 difference between the two I called suggests a reasonable amount of competition.
/Mr Lynn Manufacturers. I have a number of resources for getting a hwh replaced for around $300 labor if I need to.