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We were hoping that the situation would stabilise and that the Pound would regain some its fallen value and Dapol resisted the short term requirement to increase its pricing. It is now clear that this is not going to be the case and perhaps a weaker Pound is here for the longer term. As a consequence, we now need to recoup these increased costs from imported goods.

For all products that have been ordered already, Dapol will honour the old pricing, however for orders received after October 31st the new price list will come into force. We have endeavoured to keep these prices rises to a minimum by merely passing on the increase in costs and not maintaining our target margins, which have been impacted by the devaluation, even after this price increase.
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http://dapol.co.uk/index.php?route=blog%2Fpost&post_id=19

Unfortunately I think they are very unlikely to be alone in that move.  Hornby's prices have already risen at the beginning of this month.

Cheers, Mike

Fair enough, methinks. I don't have a problem with that.
All I have on pre order with Dapol is the BoB light pacific and, at the rate they're going, I'm not sure whether I'll see it

I had the bachmann rep in the other day and he said a price rise was inevitable. The question was to what extent it would be. This would also be done in January as thats where they now announce all their new products.

Richard

Kato & Tomix up 20% as well

Nothing I want from Dapol currently available or in the pipeline so that specific rise doesn't worry me.

The inevitability or price rises driven by Far East wages was always there, and the recent drop in the pound against the dollar has made that worse for the time being, but it is the nature of things that currencies fluctuate - that's not new.

Costs passed on will hopefully be based on increases to the prices that Dapol/Bachmann pay their suppliers so the impact on RRPs may be less in percentage terms if all that is passed on is these.

The hobby is getting more expensive than it has been in fairly recent history for sure, but I maintain that those prices were unrealistically and unsustainably low so increases were inevitable.

This is more of the same.

Roy

With the pound falling like a rock through a wet paper bag, price increases for anything imported are inevitable. I really hope that this doesn't price some people out of the hobby and the manufacturers can take some of the heat off the consumer.

Still, I have as much faith as I have always had in our beloved government to sort out our woes. 

Nothing that's new to us, but someone at the BBC seems to like model railways!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37755137

Interesting link.

Thanks for posting! 

Ben Ando... BBC News and Revolution Trains...

The article is by Ian Pollock though? 


Paul

I still say that, when total costs rather than just piece price are considered, some cheaper parts of the EU must soon be competitive with China. The Chinese are not good at quality control, they keep hold of the tooling and don't work to the requests made (from what I have heard). Stock is a long time on the boat and a long time in customs. Visits to manufacturing facilities are expensive. So when taking total costs of getting a model into a marketplace the answer might be different to the answer just based on the piece price of each item.

Manufacturing in the EU probably wont be much help to us much though.

It was always inevitable that with the Brexit vote the pound would drop so there would be price rises, my personal view if my concerns are limiting what models I get a bit more then I am a lucky sod there are people in worse positions than I am lucky to find myself in!

Quote from: acko22 on October 25, 2016, 12:41:43 PM
It was always inevitable that with the Brexit vote the pound would drop so there would be price rises, my personal view if my concerns are limiting what models I get a bit more then I am a lucky sod there are people in worse positions than I am lucky to find myself in!

Very true - we should all keep this sort of thing in perspective.  Fortunately I find that this forum seems to be populated by people who have their heads screwed on, unlike some other parts of the internet!

Quote from: Sprintex on October 25, 2016, 11:00:29 AM
The article is by Ian Pollock though? 


Paul

Indeed, but maybe there needs to be separation between work and hobbies... but with a nudge to another hack about a story...