re: Lumber by the pound?

Hi L/W,
I have had the experience but it was a little different. When I bought sawn veneer in Paris, most of it, although unexplainable not all of it, was sold by the kilogram. I suspect that the reason was that it was very valuable and with irregular shaped pieces area or volume measures would be difficult. Most were in the $130 – $195 range per kilo.
Raw slabs…… you’d have to go and look at what you were buying, weigh it, get the price and decide if it looked worth it to you. :-)