I bought a new TS-590 less than 2 years ago and its price today is about $150 less than what I paid back then. And, as far as I know, Kenwood has had great success selling that radio. Anyway, I believe it is really Elecraft's prerogative to increase the price on their products. We then will have to decide if we want to spend the money or not. :-)
Robert-KP4Y -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Price increase in mid Sept. From: Ian Kahn - Ham <[email protected]> To: Oliver Dröse <[email protected]> CC: Elecraft Reflector <[email protected]>,Eric Swartz WA6HHQ - Elecraft <[email protected]> Olli, I bought an FT-857D, new, about four years ago. I checked the price recently for insurance purposes, and the price of that radio is actually about $150-$200 US more today than it was when I bought it. --Ian Ian Kahn, KM4IK Roswell, GA EM74ua [email protected] K3 #281, P3 #688 HRD v5.x/6.0 Test Team On 8/16/2012 4:34 PM, Oliver Dröse wrote: > Thanks for the heads-up, Eric! > > 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. > > Just curious (and indeed thinking Elecraft gear *is* worth it's price). > > 73, Olli - DH8BQA > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eric Swartz WA6HHQ - Elecraft" <[email protected]> > To: "Elecraft Reflector" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 4:10 PM > Subject: [Elecraft] Price increase in mid Sept. > > >> Hi, >> >> This is an early heads-up for our customers that we will be increasing >> prices slightly on several of our products, including the K3, in mid >> September. Any orders placed before that point will be honored at today's >> pricing. >> >> We are still reviewing our complete product line to determine where our >> costs have increased significantly, so I can't be more specific on which >> other products will increase in price, or by how much. (We've been >> absorbing a lot of the parts cost increases over the past year.) >> >> Please don't ask the sales staff for more specifics as they do not have >> any additional information. >> >> As always, we'll strive to keep these changes as small as possible, and to >> absorb cost increases where ever possible. >> >> 73, >> Eric >> www.elecraft.com >> _..._ >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
