Unistrut sucks
This title isn’t quite specific enough. First of all, I’ve only known about Unistrut for three days. It’s a metal building system consisting of various struts, beams, and fasteners that allow quick fabrication of all sorts of things — from saw horses to supports for electrical, ventilation, or even a mezzanine. It’s a lot like an Erector Set for real stuff. Honestly, it seems like an awesome starting point for all sorts of projects.
What sucks is that no where on the internet or in any of the catalogs do they list any sort of pricing for the material. I don’t know what kind of people made this decision at Unistrut, but it sucks. Please make prices public. Having to submit a list of materials just to get a price quote is ass backwards and slows down the design process. This is especially critical for a small fast moving company where every day of productivity matters.
February 8th, 2008 at 8:57 am
Unistrut Corp. sells to a number of distributors. Each distributor has their own pricing based on volume of sales.
It would be nearly impossible to publish prices that are accurate, since Unistrut is sold under many different pricing schedules.
Any state distribution center should be able to quote the material same day. Our company does that.
February 8th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Wow, thanks for the reply. I still don’t see why each distributor can’t just keep a price list that they can hand out to potential customers or publish it online. Having to ask for a quote, just to see a part is even worth consideration to use is a hassle. It’s probably not a big deal for big companies and high budget projects, but for the small business or hobbyist it’s not so good.
November 13th, 2008 at 7:13 am
I totally agree with keizo…I just wanted to get a ballpark price on some unistrut items, just to see if they were within our budget for a project…and of course no pricing.
It’s a huge inconvenience. Why can 99% of the companies out there price their stuff on the internet and Unistrut can’t?
December 3rd, 2008 at 7:18 am
dudes, go to b-line.com and check the “products” tab. Peace out.
March 15th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
erm, why don’t you pick up the phone?
Other than that you’re talking market price. They don’t want to publish pricing in, say the US, because other countries Unistrut could be (probably is) massively different. Take Australia for example. We pay over the odd’s for everything but it’s the market price in our country. If Australian companies found out they could buy cheaper oversea’s it would decimate Unistrut in Australia and decimate the market price. It’s not in anyones interest to do that just so you don’t have to pick up the phone (or send an email.)
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