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Between mfr's price increases & shipping increases here lately it's a full time job just keeping up with them. Alice brings up something new that we are selling at a loss at least once a week & sometimes several times during the course of a week. Many items are pricing themselves out of our lineup. Happ has been going up on items at a steady pace since their merger... maybe price hikes to them are behind this, but for whatever reason it was one of the reasons for our recent decision to drop Happ products. Anyway, here are a few things that recently increased that we had to go up on or are in the process of going up on as soon as our older stock runs out. Most items listed as "sold out" on the Parts Page will not be reordered. Isolation Transformers: These have pretty much doubled in price. Shipping them has had a small part in this, but it has always played a part due to their weight. The main reason is that mfrs are discontinuing them on the skirttails of CRT monitors being discontinued. Cam Locks: Price increases in shipping, materials & even keys have caused this latest shipment to double in price... but wait... we discussed this with the mfr & worked out a deal for parts less keys & cams whereby we could assemble them here for you using hoarded keys & cams from the past. We'll still have to go up, but at an affordable increase. AC Line Cords: Shipping... weighty, copper & labor prices have caused these to continue to climb in price. Nothing we can do to offset it :-( Well... I did search surplus stores for the 8 footers & even found a couple batches of them, but the shipping quotes they gave me put them over the top... one at nearly $600 & when I questioned it they verified it & explained that was shipping & handling. I thought that couldn't be from a neighboring state, so I went to the UPS online calc & it did price out at $75 per case putting it right around their estimate. I thought about hiring someone with a pick up truck to go fetch them, but I forgot how much gasolene is these days :-( |