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Allan Senefelder
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 Posted: Sat 05 Jan, 2008 10:59 am Post subject: MT Price Increase |
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Just wanted to post notice of this. We have held off as long as we possibly could not having increased out prices since 2004 and taking the hit of the steadily increasing prices of our raw materials to keep the prices of our products stable, but with the doubling of the price of steel and brass in the last 16 months and the escalating cost of both wood and leather we are forced to increase our prices by 10% effective Monday, January 7th 2008.
Last edited by Allan Senefelder on Sun 06 Jan, 2008 7:21 am; edited 1 time in total
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Jean Thibodeau
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| Posted: Sat 05 Jan, 2008 8:17 pm Post subject: Re: MT Price Increase |
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| Allan Senefelder wrote: | | Just wanted to post notice of this. We have held off as long as we possibly could not having increased out prices since 2004 and taking the hit of the steadily increasing prices of our raw materials to keep the prices of our products stable, but with the doubling of the price of steel and brass in the last 16 months and the escalating cost of both wood and leather we are forced to increase our prices by 10% effective Monday, January 10th 2008. |
4 years holding out was pretty good though.   ( Like a long siege where you finally give up when the food supply is exhausted and the well has gone dry and you ran out of crossbow bolts, arrows and javelins. Oh, you also ate the horses, dogs, cats, rats, cockroaches in that order, and sold most of your reference library ! ....... Couldn't resist making my post a little more " colourful " and historically relevant ).
And 10% is like 2.5% a year: Maybe you should consider increasing your prices by around 2% or 3% every year to match inflation or increased costs of materials instead of letting it compound over many years just to avoid giving " sticker shock " by a sudden increase of 10% ? ( Which I consider reasonable by the way ).
You can easily give up your freedom. You have to fight hard to get it back!
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Allen Andrews
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Very reasonable! Now I have to decide whether I want to order anything prior to 1/10 
" I would not snare even an orc with a falsehood. "
Faramir son of Denethor
Words to live by. (Yes, I know he's not a real person)
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Allen Andrews
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However if today is Sunday 1/6/08 how can the Monday be 1/10/08?
" I would not snare even an orc with a falsehood. "
Faramir son of Denethor
Words to live by. (Yes, I know he's not a real person)
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Jean Thibodeau
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| Posted: Sun 06 Jan, 2008 5:41 am Post subject: |
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| Allen Andrews wrote: | | However if today is Sunday 1/6/08 how can the Monday be 1/10/08? |
It can't  It's called a mistake .......   Monday is the 7th, Thursday is the 10 and the next Monday is the 14th.
So the cut off date is either next Monday, or next Thursday or the following Monday if it has to be a Monday.  
Allan, I guess you will have to decide and fix ( edit ) your post here and on your site. 
( Just teasing you a bit. ).
You can easily give up your freedom. You have to fight hard to get it back!
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Allan Senefelder
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| Posted: Sun 06 Jan, 2008 7:20 am Post subject: |
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Or I looked at the calander by the computer that my insurance agent sent me and its first page was December '07 not January '08 and I was to obtuse to notice. DHUUOOOO! Monday January 7th is the correct date, my appologies for the dopiness.
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Torsten F.H. Wilke
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That truly would have been an "MT" (phonetically:EMPTY ) price increase. Being on a date that really didn't exist and all, or possibly in some strange and wonderful alternate universe in which we could pay with Monopoly money...
ps; Sorry Allan and Jean, couldn't resist the inherent humor
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Terry Crain
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Sorry to be uninformed, but is MT Mercenary's Tailor? I am not familiar with the term MT and that's the only link I see with those initials.
Thanks,
Terry
Terry Crain
A/K/A
Donal Grant
Honor, not Honors!
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Shawn Henthorn
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| Terry Crain wrote: | Sorry to be uninformed, but is MT Mercenary's Tailor? I am not familiar with the term MT and that's the only link I see with those initials.
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Yes it is....crud I am fixing to start a new harness project too. 
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