|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Tube shortage supposed to ease in September.
Last week I received an e-mail that said that major tube manufacturers
should have tubes back in stock in September. Most stores and online sellers are out of stock on a lot of tube sizes. Right now you can see how there are sellers really gouging for no-name tubes on Amazon. A Schwalbe tube on eBay can go for $20. At least there are now plenty of masks, rolls of toilet paper, and bottles of hand sanitizer. |
Ads |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
Tube shortage supposed to ease in September.
On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 15:25:59 -0700, sms
wrote: Last week I received an e-mail that said that major tube manufacturers should have tubes back in stock in September. Most stores and online sellers are out of stock on a lot of tube sizes. Right now you can see how there are sellers really gouging for no-name tubes on Amazon. A Schwalbe tube on eBay can go for $20. At least there are now plenty of masks, rolls of toilet paper, and bottles of hand sanitizer. That is something I've wondered about. Shortages of toilet paper in the U.S. as while I'm not usually greatly interested in toilet paper on the supermarket shelves the mention here did prompt me to look and in two major supermarkets here there were whole isles dedicated to toilet paper. Do USians use more toilet paper then we do here? Bigger behind? (The term "Horse's Ass" does come to mind here) Or is it that toilet paper is imported from China and The Golden Boy's efforts in provoking the Yellow Peril led to a shortage of this desperately needed product? -- Cheers, John B. |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
Tube shortage supposed to ease in September.
On Tue, 18 Aug 2020 06:23:53 +0700, John B.
wrote: On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 15:25:59 -0700, sms wrote: Last week I received an e-mail that said that major tube manufacturers should have tubes back in stock in September. Most stores and online sellers are out of stock on a lot of tube sizes. Right now you can see how there are sellers really gouging for no-name tubes on Amazon. A Schwalbe tube on eBay can go for $20. At least there are now plenty of masks, rolls of toilet paper, and bottles of hand sanitizer. That is something I've wondered about. Shortages of toilet paper in the U.S. as while I'm not usually greatly interested in toilet paper on the supermarket shelves the mention here did prompt me to look and in two major supermarkets here there were whole isles dedicated to toilet paper. Stupid Spell Checker. Read Aisles for Isles :-( Do USians use more toilet paper then we do here? Bigger behind? (The term "Horse's Ass" does come to mind here) Or is it that toilet paper is imported from China and The Golden Boy's efforts in provoking the Yellow Peril led to a shortage of this desperately needed product? -- Cheers, John B. |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
Tube shortage supposed to ease in September.
On 8/17/2020 6:23 PM, John B. wrote:
On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 15:25:59 -0700, sms wrote: Last week I received an e-mail that said that major tube manufacturers should have tubes back in stock in September. Most stores and online sellers are out of stock on a lot of tube sizes. Right now you can see how there are sellers really gouging for no-name tubes on Amazon. A Schwalbe tube on eBay can go for $20. At least there are now plenty of masks, rolls of toilet paper, and bottles of hand sanitizer. That is something I've wondered about. Shortages of toilet paper in the U.S. as while I'm not usually greatly interested in toilet paper on the supermarket shelves the mention here did prompt me to look and in two major supermarkets here there were whole isles dedicated to toilet paper. Do USians use more toilet paper then we do here? Bigger behind? (The term "Horse's Ass" does come to mind here) Or is it that toilet paper is imported from China and The Golden Boy's efforts in provoking the Yellow Peril led to a shortage of this desperately needed product? -- Cheers, John B. There wasn't a shortage so much as a misallocation. Half the product was in offices, schools, restaurants and their suppliers of institutional package TP. A local grocery bought toms of that bulk pack product, rewrapped and priced it and was never out. Others weren't so creative. See also beer kegs. There was a billion dollars worth of beer in kegs stranded in various arenas, bars, clubs and wholesale warehouses which went bad. The beer was a loss but the brewers mostly wanted their $100+ each kegs back. That took a while. -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
Tube shortage supposed to ease in September.
On Monday, August 17, 2020 at 5:34:11 PM UTC-7, AMuzi wrote:
On 8/17/2020 6:23 PM, John B. wrote: On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 15:25:59 -0700, sms wrote: Last week I received an e-mail that said that major tube manufacturers should have tubes back in stock in September. Most stores and online sellers are out of stock on a lot of tube sizes. Right now you can see how there are sellers really gouging for no-name tubes on Amazon. A Schwalbe tube on eBay can go for $20. At least there are now plenty of masks, rolls of toilet paper, and bottles of hand sanitizer. That is something I've wondered about. Shortages of toilet paper in the U.S. as while I'm not usually greatly interested in toilet paper on the supermarket shelves the mention here did prompt me to look and in two major supermarkets here there were whole isles dedicated to toilet paper. Do USians use more toilet paper then we do here? Bigger behind? (The term "Horse's Ass" does come to mind here) Or is it that toilet paper is imported from China and The Golden Boy's efforts in provoking the Yellow Peril led to a shortage of this desperately needed product? -- Cheers, John B. There wasn't a shortage so much as a misallocation. Half the product was in offices, schools, restaurants and their suppliers of institutional package TP. A local grocery bought toms of that bulk pack product, rewrapped and priced it and was never out. Others weren't so creative. See also beer kegs. There was a billion dollars worth of beer in kegs stranded in various arenas, bars, clubs and wholesale warehouses which went bad. The beer was a loss but the brewers mostly wanted their $100+ each kegs back. That took a while. The toilet paper shortage in Portland was caused by hoarding and occurred before the stay at home order. All sorts of staples were hoarded. Long before I started working from home, buying a bag of rice was difficult. I'm hoping there is a tube glut when the plague is over because even before the shortage, prices were too high -- and now they're ridiculous. BIKE RELATED CONTENT! Is that Slime glue any good compared to Rema fluid? It is supposed to be a cold vulcanizing fluid labeled as rubber cement, or so I'm told. It's cheap -- and there are some other cold vulcanizing fluids that aren't as expensive as Rema. Is anyone using an off-brand? -- Jay Beattie. |
#6
|
|||
|
|||
Tube shortage supposed to ease in September.
On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 19:34:07 -0500, AMuzi wrote:
On 8/17/2020 6:23 PM, John B. wrote: On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 15:25:59 -0700, sms wrote: Last week I received an e-mail that said that major tube manufacturers should have tubes back in stock in September. Most stores and online sellers are out of stock on a lot of tube sizes. Right now you can see how there are sellers really gouging for no-name tubes on Amazon. A Schwalbe tube on eBay can go for $20. At least there are now plenty of masks, rolls of toilet paper, and bottles of hand sanitizer. That is something I've wondered about. Shortages of toilet paper in the U.S. as while I'm not usually greatly interested in toilet paper on the supermarket shelves the mention here did prompt me to look and in two major supermarkets here there were whole isles dedicated to toilet paper. Do USians use more toilet paper then we do here? Bigger behind? (The term "Horse's Ass" does come to mind here) Or is it that toilet paper is imported from China and The Golden Boy's efforts in provoking the Yellow Peril led to a shortage of this desperately needed product? -- Cheers, John B. There wasn't a shortage so much as a misallocation. Half the product was in offices, schools, restaurants and their suppliers of institutional package TP. A local grocery bought toms of that bulk pack product, rewrapped and priced it and was never out. Others weren't so creative. See also beer kegs. There was a billion dollars worth of beer in kegs stranded in various arenas, bars, clubs and wholesale warehouses which went bad. The beer was a loss but the brewers mostly wanted their $100+ each kegs back. That took a while. I had assumed, from posts here, that the problem was, simply, that the U.S. ran out of toilet paper. Which seemed a puzzle as here the stores were "full" of it. Here, beer comes in cans and bottles and while the sale of alcoholic beverages was banned for a month or so the stacks of cases in MACRO, the major wholesale store here, weren't hauled away and new stacks substituted so I assume that beer in bottles must last a while :-) -- Cheers, John B. |
#7
|
|||
|
|||
Tube shortage supposed to ease in September.
On Monday, August 17, 2020 at 10:07:56 PM UTC-4, John B. wrote:
I had assumed, from posts here, that the problem was, simply, that the U.S. ran out of toilet paper. Which seemed a puzzle as here the stores were "full" of it. There was a toilet paper shortage only because people were hoarding toilet paper. And the only reason people were hoarding toilet people and was because people were hoarding toilet paper. Fashion is weird and powerful. - Frank Krygowski |
#8
|
|||
|
|||
Tube shortage supposed to ease in September.
On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 19:28:59 -0700 (PDT), Frank Krygowski
wrote: On Monday, August 17, 2020 at 10:07:56 PM UTC-4, John B. wrote: I had assumed, from posts here, that the problem was, simply, that the U.S. ran out of toilet paper. Which seemed a puzzle as here the stores were "full" of it. There was a toilet paper shortage only because people were hoarding toilet paper. And the only reason people were hoarding toilet people and was because people were hoarding toilet paper. Fashion is weird and powerful. - Frank Krygowski A friend sent some jokes for the new year. One of them was "I can't believe that people's survival instincts told them to grab toilet paper" :-) Another was "I can't believe that the comment "I wouldn't touch her/him with a 10 foot pole" would become national policy :-) -- Cheers, John B. |
#9
|
|||
|
|||
Tube shortage supposed to ease in September.
On 8/17/2020 4:23 PM, John B. wrote:
Do USians use more toilet paper then we do here? Bigger behind? (The term "Horse's Ass" does come to mind here) Or is it that toilet paper is imported from China and The Golden Boy's efforts in provoking the Yellow Peril led to a shortage of this desperately needed product? It was a bizarre reaction to the pandemic that fed on itself. Normally I expect that most people buy more toilet paper when they only have a few rolls left. But once the crazy people began panic buying of toilet paper it made the normal people anxious because they didn't have stockpiles so they began buying more of it as well. It is not imported from China, so the BLOTUS (Biggest Liar Of The U.S.) had nothing to do with the shortage. |
#10
|
|||
|
|||
Tube shortage supposed to ease in September.
On Tuesday, August 18, 2020 at 4:01:46 AM UTC+2, jbeattie wrote:
BIKE RELATED CONTENT! Is that Slime glue any good compared to Rema fluid? It is supposed to be a cold vulcanizing fluid labeled as rubber cement, or so I'm told. It's cheap -- and there are some other cold vulcanizing fluids that aren't as expensive as Rema. Is anyone using an off-brand? -- Jay Beattie. Wow is it so bad that you have cut back on rubber cement? How much do you use? One or two small tubes a year? Getting cheaper ones will save you a lot ;-) Lou |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
He flies through the air with the greatest of ease | [email protected] | UK | 4 | February 28th 18 03:57 PM |
20" 406 Tube Shortage | sms | Techniques | 2 | June 26th 16 07:17 AM |
Earn Up To 100's of $ per Day with Ease! | clinton | General | 0 | October 30th 07 02:19 PM |
Minor hit from vehicle, anyone know how true/round is a head-tube supposed to be? | Pete Grey | Techniques | 4 | August 9th 07 09:20 PM |
Ease traffic congestion - ban cycles! | vernon.levy | UK | 2 | January 1st 04 11:46 AM |