Saunas for sale near you: the published prices to take to a seller

Somebody searching for a sauna near them wants 2 things. They want to see one before they buy it. They want to know they are not being overcharged for it.

We can answer the second and not the first. We hold no seller list, no coverage map and no record of stock in any area.

So this page does the half we can evidence. It holds the figures each maker publishes, with the date we read them and the page we read them from. Carry those into the conversation.

What we do not know, and will not pretend to

We have never read a local price. We do not know which makers a seller near you carries, or what it charges. We have no relationship with any seller anywhere.

That gap is why the page takes this form. A page that ranks sellers by area, with no record behind it, is guessing at your expense.

The published range, and what sits inside it

Across the makers we record, published figures run from $4,036.50 to $45,399. Those 2 figures are not the same sauna. The lower one is a 2-person outdoor sauna from Almost Heaven. The higher one is a 6-person outdoor traditional build from Sun Home.

Most of the figures we read sit far below the upper end. Redwood Outdoors publishes $4,299 for a 2-person indoor alcove and $11,699 for an 8-person outdoor cabin. Clearlight runs from $5,399 to $9,799. HigherDOSE publishes $7,999 and $8,999 for the 2 sizes of its cabin.

Seating moves a figure more than any other choice. Heat type moves it next.

Three costs no published figure carries

The base comes first. A sauna needs a flat pad that drains, and no maker in this record supplies one.

The electrical supply comes second. HigherDOSE publishes the requirement for both sizes of its cabin. The 2 Person runs on 120 volts and the 3 Person on 240 volts. Each needs its own circuit. Ask for the same 2 numbers on whatever you are shown.

The freight comes third. HigherDOSE publishes $899 and $999 plus tax, and both stop at the curb. Sun Home and Clearlight carry the freight inside the price, and both name it a promotion. It therefore comes back out of a refund.

What to ask before you give anybody your details

Ask for the model name and the published figure, in writing. Ask whether that figure is a sale price, and what the regular price beside it is.

Ask where the delivery stops. Ask what circuit the heater needs. Ask what a return costs, in freight and in restocking. Sun Home and Clearlight both publish a restocking fee of 25 percent.

Then ask for the price of the same model on the maker's own storefront. If the 2 figures differ, the difference is the question.

A quote form will sit here

This section is a placeholder, and it is marked as one on purpose. There is no form on this page, no email box and no input field of any kind.

We are not collecting your details, because we have no seller to send them to. A form goes here when a seller network exists. It goes in with the name of whoever receives an enquiry, and with the disclosure.

Our method

We read each maker's own storefront and we record the figure it prints, the date we read it and the page address. Nothing here is tested. We accept no payment from a maker, and this site carries no affiliate link.

Where a maker publishes no figure, we record the gap. We never fill one with an estimate, and never with a figure from an area we have not read.