Price of copper tubing!

Just finished a fence project. It took all summer to gather enough cedar pickets. I could grab sometimes 40 at a time when the lumber yards got them. Finally a local yard got in a big stack so I bought the last batch from them for $3.12. When I got to the end of the job I was short three pickets as some were not good enough to put up. I went to buy those and they came from the stack I got the last batch from. When I went to pay they wanted 5.37 per picket! They told me that the new shipment had a price increase but I know for sure it was the same stack I got the $3.12 pickets from three weeks earlier.