[Elecraft] Price Increase Alert for mid October

Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft eric at elecraft.com
Thu Sep 24 17:46:04 EDT 2015


Folks - this thread was closed earlier today.
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Eric
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On 9/24/2015 12:16 PM, David Gilbert wrote:
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> I think you're grossly underestimating the disruptive cost of a move like 
> that.  The loss of product flow (or at the very least the cost of the 
> redundancy involved to avoid it, the massive time spent orchestrating such a 
> move, the undefined cost of the probable loss of key personnel who probably 
> would not join the move, the cost of retraining new manufacturing personnel, 
> the potential cost of defective product caused by the move (it happens ... 
> trust me) ... not to mention the transportation cost of the move itself.  All 
> to react to cost increases from suppliers that have nothing to do with the 
> location of the firm itself.
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