[Elecraft] Price increase in mid Sept.

[Rob May]

I buy lots of parts from Mouser, but at work and for myself.  Many components have doubled in price in the last 3 or 4 years.  I'm sure Elecraft makes every effort to balance cost vs. margin vs. market.  My 4 year old K3 and 4 month old KX3 were/are bargains.
Rob
NV5E


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> From: n6kr at elecraft.com
> To: droese at necg.de
> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:43:43 -0700
> CC: elecraft at mailman.qth.net; eric at elecraft.com
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Price increase in mid Sept.
>
> Our volume is certainly less than that of the "big three." That means
> we can't order in quantities as large as they do, and we have less
> leverage at times when prices go up. And they have been going up --
> almost everything gets more expensive year to year.
>
> 73,
> Wayne
> N6KR
>
> Oliver Dröse wrote:
>
> > What I have already been wondering when the last price increase was
> > announced 2 years ago (I believe it was) is why are prices
> > increasing for
> > Elecraft gear (even if only slightly) while prices of all other
> > manufacturers are falling after products a certain time on the market?
> >
> > I understood that Kenwood, Yaesu, Icom start with an a bit higher
> > price (but
> > still acceptable otherwise they would not sell their radios) and after
> > "earning" all the development costs (and "milking" the early
> > adaptors who
> > always need the newest and "best") they can and do decrease the
> > product
> > prices as they only have the production costs then (including
> > margin, etc.).
> > Typical mass-production mechanisms.
> >
> > So what is different at Elecraft? No mass-production (compared to
> > the "big
> > ones")? Or is that lower prices right away and thus always only
> > production
> > costs + margin + only small uplift for development (which might
> > level out
> > that of the others seen over a complete product life-cycle)? At
> > least those
> > others have to fight the same cost increases for components, etc.
>
>
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