Re: Revell U-Boat

Sam I then suggest that you not by the kit, and not buy anything else from
Revell or any other company that changes prices on an item that was
estimated months before final production costs were available.

You will then have plenty of time to build models as you probably won't be
buying any new ones.


"SamVanga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >Then Revell has higher costs than anticipated and raises the
> >price, but since they already have orders for the initial run, decide to
> >honor
> >the initial price for those orders.
>
> I haven't followed the specific model in discussion so I don't know the
> specific history.
>
> If they are honoring the original price good for them.
>
> If costs go up over time, well, inflation, new taxes, etc. happen.
However, I
> hold that "oops, we made a mistake and forgot to carry the two" (or the
> equivalant) is not professional and should not be tolerated by customers.
>
> >If they had increased
> >the price on the orders they already had I could see where one would get
the
> >perception of dishonesty, but they didn't do that.
>
> Fair enough.
>
> >FWIW Enron wasn't about making a profit. In fact their problems lie in
the
> >fact
> >that they really couldn't make a profit. In short Enron was just about
fraud.
>
> AMEN!  And, it is a pity more can't be done to punish, severely, the
> fraudsters.