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Tribetime

(6,578 posts) Fri May 9, 2025, 12:48 PM May 9

Just leaving Home Depot the price of copper and copper fittings more than doubled overnight

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Just leaving Home Depot the price of copper and copper fittings more than doubled overnight (Original Post) Tribetime May 9 OP

Buy Trump's definition, more winning. dem4decades May 9 #1

So is Home Depot selling Chinese copper piping? The Madcap May 9 #2

too expensive... WarGamer May 9 #7

Mexico is the huge producer of copper pipe and fittings in the US market. Brother Buzz May 9 #9

Retailers will take this opportunity to jack up prices. It's what they do. Walleye May 9 #3

Two months ago, I bought from HD a 90-degeee half-inch brass elbow sweat fitting. John1956PA May 9 #4

The brass stuff has been expensive for a while. Mosby May 9 #12

I bought a few half-inch ball utility faucets a few months ago. John1956PA May 9 #13

Who is surprised by this? LetMyPeopleVote May 9 #5

Just the sweat fittings, or the threaded ones too? flying rabbit May 9 #6

I had to double check the price I couldn't believe it Tribetime May 9 #8

Just change their name The Madcap May 9 #10

Predatory Capitalism with an excuse. Emile May 9 #11

dem4decades

(12,802 posts)

1. Buy Trump's definition, more winning.

Reply to Tribetime (Original post)

Fri May 9, 2025, 01:00 PM

May 9

The Madcap

(1,180 posts)

2. So is Home Depot selling Chinese copper piping?

Reply to Tribetime (Original post)

Fri May 9, 2025, 01:16 PM

May 9

What about good old American pipes?

WarGamer

(17,149 posts)

7. too expensive...

Reply to The Madcap (Reply #2)

Fri May 9, 2025, 04:06 PM

May 9

Child labor produced elbows and couplers are 1/3 the price!!!

Brother Buzz

(38,439 posts)

9. Mexico is the huge producer of copper pipe and fittings in the US market.

Reply to The Madcap (Reply #2)

Fri May 9, 2025, 04:59 PM

May 9

Has been for decades.

Hecho en Mexico, often under a US label

Walleye

(40,683 posts)

3. Retailers will take this opportunity to jack up prices. It's what they do.

Reply to Tribetime (Original post)

Fri May 9, 2025, 02:04 PM

May 9

They see just how much we will pay and they leave it there. I noticed the price of fruit in the grocery store has gone up already.

John1956PA

(4,102 posts)

4. Two months ago, I bought from HD a 90-degeee half-inch brass elbow sweat fitting.

Reply to Tribetime (Original post)

Fri May 9, 2025, 02:09 PM

May 9

The fitting has ears with holes so that I could anchor it to the wall. The cost was about twelve dollars. I am sure that the price has gone up since then.

As an aside, I will mention that I worked a three-month seasonal job at HD last spring. It was okay.

Mosby

(18,552 posts)

12. The brass stuff has been expensive for a while.

Reply to John1956PA (Reply #4)

Fri May 9, 2025, 06:37 PM

May 9

Just like ball valves, I bought a 1/2 brass shark bite for $23 recently. They used to be about 14-16 dollars a few years ago.

John1956PA

(4,102 posts)

13. I bought a few half-inch ball utility faucets a few months ago.

Reply to Mosby (Reply #12)

Fri May 9, 2025, 06:55 PM

May 9

The prices at HD and at a regional home improvement chain were about the same, approximately fourteen dollars each.

I am going to make a point of cleaning up some old gasket utility faucets which I pulled out of old work long ago. The only monetary investment will be the price for new gaskets. The cost saved is worth the time required to refurbish the faucets.