I talked the manager at my TSC into $2.99 a pack if I buy a whole skid, which works out to $242.19 for 81 packs @ 2025lbs. So one brick works out to $0.37/ brick. I think I figured out how to get a good burn finally, last night I started with a loose stack of 4 2 N/S 2 E/W (tried the pryramid like the directions, but my stove is too small), after those got good and coaled I smashed them and spread them out across the bottom of the stove, then laid out 4 more bricks ontop all N/S placed tightly next to each other. This gave me a good hot 4 hour burn without having to mess with them all the time, got the best secondary burn I've ever had in this stove, secondaries burned great for just over 2 hours.