It pays to get mats locally (no big freight bill) Nobody here knows where you are.
In the first post the op says they are in Northern Virginia.
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Well, when buying locally, the freight cost is simply already baked in to the retail price. That said, the big retailers only ship full trucks, so their freight dollar is more efficient than ours. So it’s probably true that the best bet for the OP is going to be negotiating a discount off retail price from the nearest farm store
I bought from The Rubber Man and a friend bought from Great Mats. I believe both do a discount on bulk. One of the major expenses is shipping. The only issue is that they will drop at the hard surface road. They don’t have a way to move the pallets of mats on gravel.
Don’t know if there are dairy farmers in your area but we got a wonderful deal on 70 used 4x6 mats from a retiring dairy farmer for $7 each mat. They do have a few cuts where he fitted them around the stancions in his barn, but I’ll put up with a few holes for that price. Found ours offered in a local shopper newspaper; would more likely be on craigslist these days.
