[ICOM] 706MKIIG Price Increase

[Joe Crawford]

Please refrain from the little political comments. I think that most people 
can figure that out. EVERYTHING is going up because of fuel cost, not just 
here in the U..S. of A. Hopefully we will know the price for the 7200 soon.
                                                   ICOM FOREVER,
                                                   Joe W4AAB
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex" <kr1st at amsat.org>
To: "'ICOM Reflector'" <icom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 6:11 PM
Subject: RE: [ICOM] 706MKIIG Price Increase


> Dick Flanagan wrote:
>
>> Prices of all ICOM radios are going up because the value of the
>> dollar just keeps going down.  A manufacturer like ICOM can only
>> absorb this decline for so long.
>
> That was exactly the "official" reason given in 2005. Damn history... :)
>
>> PS:  Don't blame ICOM, blame those in charge of US monetary policy
>> for making the value of the dollar less and less.
>
> Well, we can blame Icom a little bit. For price fixing for instance. 
> There's
> hardly any competition between dealers for the same products. Same goes 
> for
> Yaesu and Kenwood of course.
>
> I'll refrain from going into what contributed to the value of the dollar
> what it is today. Ya'll know what to do in November. ;-)
>
> 73,
> --Alex KR1ST
> http://www.kr1st.com
>
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