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Old 10-29-2008, 08:43 AM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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Correction, none at Home Depot or at Lowes. My husband got them at orderpellets.com
The Lowe's in Edwardsville, where I am employed, does have them (for anyone reading this in the immediate Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area).
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Old 10-29-2008, 08:58 AM
 
Location: Long Island
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We live in NY, on Long Island. Lowes or Home Depot stock so little that they sell out upon delivery. There are a lot of pellet stoves on LI.
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Old 10-29-2008, 09:03 AM
 
Location: Kirkwood, DE and beautiful SXM!
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Last year, Sam's Club had large bags of pellets.
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Old 10-29-2008, 10:43 AM
 
Location: bethlehem PA
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we ordered ours online and are having them delivered since the place we purchased our stove at is out.

orderpellets.com

i would try them. GL!
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Old 11-02-2008, 04:09 PM
 
Location: Saylorsburg, PA
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Went to Edwardsville Lowes and was able to get 15 bags for $5.97 each. More than the $4.10 I usually pay but considering I no one else down here in Saylorsburg or the surrounding area had any, I didn't mind the drive and paying the price for them. Besides, it was a nice day for a drive and I got to meet ScanBarre!! Great guy and extremely helpful in providing me directions to the shops at Montage Mountain. Thanks, SB!! Hope to see you again sometime!!
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Old 11-02-2008, 10:07 PM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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Went to Edwardsville Lowes and was able to get 15 bags for $5.97 each. More than the $4.10 I usually pay but considering I no one else down here in Saylorsburg or the surrounding area had any, I didn't mind the drive and paying the price for them. Besides, it was a nice day for a drive and I got to meet ScanBarre!! Great guy and extremely helpful in providing me directions to the shops at Montage Mountain. Thanks, SB!! Hope to see you again sometime!!
Howdy, howdy! It was very nice to meet you and your lovely better half! Feel free to come up and visit the Wilkes-Barre area as often as you'd like. Yeah, $5.97 for 40 lbs. is a bit steep, but when you're one of the few games in town that actually has such a "hot" commodity (pun intended), then I guess people are willing to pay that premium. People are snatching up our supply left and right.

I'm going to try to assemble a short list here of people from our forum whom I've met in person thus far (that I can recall):
  • coartist88
  • DavidWebb
  • EnyaGirl
  • NYRangers2008
  • rockky
  • scrantonluna
  • weluvpa

I can't wait to meet many more of you, including memoriesbre, poconoproud, I LOVE PA, and Summering!
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Old 11-02-2008, 10:09 PM
 
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Lol,

Seems kind of like you all got suckered into buying some junk pellet stove thats really not practical for living in Pennsylvania.

Don't be so lazy, get a REAL woodstove that will last you 20+ years, and buy some REAL firewood.

Its worth it, I have to keep one window open in my house all winter long, and I don't spend more than $1000 for the whole season.
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Old 11-03-2008, 12:05 AM
 
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Don't be so lazy, get a REAL woodstove that will last you 20+ years, and buy some REAL firewood.
You can have your cake and eat it too, get a coal stove. A hand fired coal stove needs to be looked after every 12 hours. A stoker which is like a pellet stove can go for days. I have yet to meet anyone that has ever burned wood that switched to coal that would ever go back and I've met hundreds of them. Wood is only nice if you're trying to score with a chick . ;P Assuming the cost of a cord of wood @180 is correct in this thread:

//www.city-data.com/forum/north...cord-wood.html

Roughly speaking coal is $180 per ton delivered into your basement or where ever you want to store it. Might be a little less or more depending on your area and who you're getting it from.

Wood = $15 per million BTU's
Coal = $9

FUEL COST CALCULATOR!!! - Anthracite Coal Discussion and News

Note the efficiency rating on that document for coal should be changed to at least 80% and can go as high as 90%.
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Old 11-03-2008, 03:33 AM
 
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the concept of the pellet stove was great.. each load excatley the same as the load before it in output. you could actually use a thermostat on it , something you could never do on a wood burning stove because the loads are inconsistant as to heat output based on the size and type of wood .

i knew when we looked at them that they were over priced and like everything else those pellets would suddenly be in short supply as this thing got more popular and expensive compared to what they were when the idea hit the market.

they quoted us 4500.00 for basically a free standing stove that should have been no more than 1/2 that.
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Old 11-03-2008, 04:11 AM
 
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they quoted us 4500.00 for basically a free standing stove that should have been no more than 1/2 that.
That is quite frankly outrageous. You can get a Keystoker boiler for that cost, as in hot water baseboard and it will last you 30 or 40 years. The cheapest free standing coal stoker starts around $1800 for 70K unit.

Scroll down a little: Stove, Fireplace, Heating, Drums PA, (http://www.valleystoveandfireplace.com/Products.html - broken link)
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