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    Default Everybody reducing prices except audio importers ?

    Just received Absolute Sounds' newsletter saying " buy your American equipment now before further price increases " Ha ha.
    Hans

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    When anything American now costs 25% more, why would anyone reduce thier price?? Confused...

    Dave

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    The car dealers are reducing their prices , lowering their profit margins
    Hans

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    Only for what they have in stock I believe??

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Cawley View Post
    When anything American now costs 25% more, why would anyone reduce thier price?? Confused...

    Dave
    It's more a case of when anything paid for in U$ costs 25% more. I have absorbed 50% of the cost of my last shipment when the U$ was $1.63 to the £. It's now $1.45 to the £, so people like me are going to have to pass that on VERY soon. Not so long ago £99.99 was my price point, now £149.99 is my price point. But my FOB costs have only gone up by 10%. The rest is all exchange losses, and the increased value of import duties & VAT.
    If the £ drops any further, we'll all be in dire straits.

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    Ricardo obviously needs a new Ferrari...
    Last edited by i_should_coco; 15-11-2008 at 19:00.

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    Quote Originally Posted by i_should_coco View Post
    Ricardo obviously needs a new Ferarri...
    Yeah, and has its price increased in line with the Euro, I wonder ?
    Hans

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    Top thinking there - when turnover drops, reduce margins so you make a lower percentage of a smaller total, should hasten the entire country going bust.

    Ed.

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    The same mentality exists in the taxi trade despite the fact that lower prices are never offset by greater turnover volume.

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    I teach a lot of Korean students - during the Korean IMF crisis in 1996 I had to reduce my hourly charge drastically as a gesture of good will and to keep the students, in fact - it paid off in the end.
    Hans

    MBL 1531 -> Allnic L-4000 -> Audiolab 8000S used as power amp only -> Quad 2805. Cables: Transparent Ultra

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