Moving Elecraft to a lower-cost location is probably not feasible due to the disruption and cost of relocating the business and families. Additionally, the challenge and cost of finding another location can alone be significant. However, it is a business decision, so the costs vs benefits could be weighed.
73, George, K5KG Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 24, 2015, at 9:03 AM, <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Have you guys considered moving the company to a state with a lower cost of > living? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Elecraft [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric > Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft > Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 8:55 PM > To: Elecraft Reflector Reflector > Subject: [Elecraft] Price Increase Alert for mid October > > Early Alert for Elecraft list readers: > > Our costs are going up as our vendors are increasing their prices to us and > our labor costs increase. Its been a continual battle to keep costs down as > economic activity has increased the last two years. We've been absorbing > this, but now we have hit the point where we will be increasing prices > slightly on a number of our products by about the middle of October. > > Of course, all orders received prior to the increase will be charged at the > lower, pre-increase, pricing when they ship. > > Please don't all or email our sales / support people about which products > will be changing or how much the changes will be, as they do not have this > information yet. (We're still in the middle of this review.) We'll let you > all know as soon as we have everything finalized. > > 73, > Eric > /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 Message > delivered to [email protected] > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
