quality
Actually u guys are wrong about thinking that you wont get quality for $1.00 / sq.ft.
May i ask, how much and where do you buy your flooring? you dont have to tell me the store name, just online/ retail store/ and how many branches they have around you?
Home depo for example has a HUGE amount of expenses that are built into every single item in their store.
Online companies basically run an office and a warehouse, some drop ship and dont stock anything and have minimum orders. Others stock and import directly, have no minimum orders, and let others drop ship from them.
These online companies and Home depot or Lewes get their laminate at the same price, except the online companies do not have as many expenses.
Do you really think it costs $2 or even $1 to just MANUFACTURE 1sq.ft? NO, it costs about $0.30-.50/sq.ft
I know this because I used to work for an online retailer and we imported Kronotex, Classen, & Horizon our self's directly from Germany, no middle men involved.
The company is still operational and is doing great, check it out,
www.eurolaminate.com, kronotex costs $0.95/sq.ft there with no minimum order because those guys stock everything and import directly.
To be honest, when i used to work there, we got the Krono for 0.78 including delivery to our warehouse from Germany! those are container prices of course but still.