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. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
