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| Subject: | Re: Oil costs affecting kit prices? |  |
| Date: | Jul 11, 2008 |
| From: | Sean Langley | |
When they can get away with it?
But seriously ... there are so many factors crossing with each other that predicting price movements is closer to witchcraft than economics. Exchange rates; import tariffs; commodity and transport costs; premises costs for shops; whether staff are pitching for a pay rise (because of inflation) and whether the owner is resisting (doing his bit to prevent inflation); etc, etc, etc. I've seen other threads where Tamiya prices have suddenly run ahead of Dragon's, which no-one can explain. Even the timing is impossible to predict - although one significant factor appears to be sudden unexpected increases at source, as Trumpeter did recently.
But they will go up, as all prices do. What I do is insulate myself by buying cheap on eBay :) and thus, these days, buying not very much :( but on the other hand saving money :)...
sean |
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 | Oil costs affecting kit prices? - Paul A. Owen - Jul 10, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Oil costs affecting kit prices? - Sean Langley - Jul 11, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: Oil costs affecting kit prices? - Graham Tetley - Jul 11, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Oil costs affecting kit prices? - Vernon - Jul 11, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: Oil costs affecting kit prices? - Al Glover - Jul 12, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: Oil costs affecting kit prices? - Paul A. Owen - Jul 12, 2008 |
| . . . Paul, Kits are made of plastic, not oil. - Frank Forster - Jul 12, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: Paul, Kits are made of plastic, not oil. - Vernon - Jul 12, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Is someone joking about what is made from oil? - Edward Hall - Jul 12, 2008 |
| . . . Locally produced kts - Paul A. Owen - Jul 12, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: Locally produced kts - Roy A. Schlicht - Jul 12, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . shop prices are goind down here - adam lehmann - Jul 13, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Dilemma - Frank Forster - Jul 13, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Dilemma - adam lehmann - Jul 13, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hong Kong Sample - Edward Hall - Jul 13, 2008 |
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