Hi Guys
Now you see it, and now you won’t because we have had a change of plan and the Simplicity is no more. So here is the story behind the Simplicity. Once upon a time a nice man called Andy Anderson built a machine called the Explorer which did what the guys in Europe wanted and at a price that we thought our market could afford and would want, and which the US market loves. You just cannot beat made in USA or Europe, where people build quality. So we have the machine but then we came upon the problem that Bill in Australia sees all the time, the cost of shipping. If you take the US factory price of $4,500.00, forget any show specials there might be around, then people in the UK would expect to typically pay £4,500.00 which equates to $7,200.00 and within that it should include Shipping, Value Added Tax @ 20% and Import Duty at 3%. In passing please note that we pay VAT & Import Duty on the cost of shipping. So for me to make a small profit I need to sell it at £4,750.00 or $7,600.00. In the UK typically people see a $US price and think same price but in £UK and that is some uplift. At those prices it would be a hard sell because we have the cheap Chinese machines with much lower specifications, smaller machining areas, and lower build quality and a lack of engineering knowledge with little or no support selling for a lower price. My experience of buying from Chinese sources is that once you have bought the goods you are on your own. That comment is based on hard experience. In the UK potential hobbyist and to a lesser extent small business customers are not really up to speed yet on what to look for in a CNC. Result is that the cheap machines can play the smoke and mirrors game. So given our price problem Andy came up with the revised base that you see in the Simplicity. Wayne “Crafty” Mack has a machine that Andy built for him, Wayne’s machine has a smaller work area because his retail workshop area is much reduced whilst I have a standard Explorer with its base and a Simplicity base as well. The benefit of the Simplicity was that we could build the base here in UK and import the Explorer gantries and see lower shipping costs and so end use price would improve. However Legacy are facing a similar problem in the USA in that shipping charges are going sky high so Andy has revisited the way they are shipped and decided to ship the Explorer in two boxes instead of one crate. That change makes for significant savings on shipping and so they get passed on to the customer and everyone has the same machine. So the Simplicity is no more and the Explorer is numero uno! Regards Roger Bill the cost of shipping an Explorer in two boxes at 73 kilos volume charges are estimated at $576.10 to the airport in Melbourne, equivalent volumetric weight is 161 pounds. If shipped in a crate the weight is 280 pounds, buy two or three machines packed on a skid in two box configuration and you save even more. From: CURTIS GEORGE Sent: Monday, February 3, 2014 11:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Euro-Legacy Simplicity 600 CNC machine Hello Roger It looks weird to me. Is there a table and a X axis? all that I see is an Z axis and a Y axis. Is there any way to do turning on this machin, or is it just for flat work? I wish you guys luck on this venture. C.A.G. ----- Original Message ----- From: Roger P <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 05:54:03 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Euro-Legacy Simplicity 600 CNC machine Hi Curt This is a new machine that we are launching to compete with these plastic squirting lasers. Instead of melting plastic this machine squirts sawdust mixed with a fast setting glue, first units ship April 1st. Regards Roger From:curt george Sent: Monday, February 3, 2014 9:07 AM To:[email protected] Subject: Re: Euro-Legacy Simplicity 600 CNC machine What in the world is that? it looks like a laser printer with-out the paper. C.A.G. ----- Original Message ----- From:Tim Krause To:[email protected] Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 2:18 AM Subject: Euro-Legacy Simplicity 600 CNC machine Roger has been holding back a little or I just happened to catch this while he is still developing his site. I'm assuming this was developed as a European model that can be shipped mostly flat to avoid higher shipping costs. What's the story Rodger? http://www.simply-woodworking.com/files/SimpIicity%20%2D%209A.jpg -Tim -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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