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(officially) released their 2007
Just wondered why the "at long last comment" was warrented then in that
case except of course it is a chance to have a dig at Hornby.
Kevin
"John Turner" wrote
The story I heard was that the catalogue was ready in time but that the
(Belgian) printers made a real pigs orphan of the price list which has taken
a couple of weeks to reprint.
"John Turner" wrote
The Fareham Club has just temporarily lost 2 members (electricians) who live
in Fareham but are currently working night shifts on the refurb of a
shopping centre somewhere in the eastern half of Essex... And they are
commuting daily "in works time". Their time on task each night runs out at
somewhere near 4 1/2 or 5 hours and the rest of their working day is spent
travelling.
Quite how this can be cheaper than employing a contracting electrician from
the north east side of London to do the work is beyond me.
You will probably find that the same logic drives Hornby's decision to get
he printing done in Belgium, but as they have just found out to their cost:
"You pay peanuts, you get the job done by monkeys"
Elliott
"John Turner" wrote
I can't believe it's cheaper to produce in Belgium than in the UK.
John.
I'm not saying it is, but that may be Hornby's thinking ??
Although, I do wonder when I look at printing costs in the UK and then see
some of the books printed, one being South Africa of all places, so provided
they have the equipment and the exhange rate etc is lower, it may well be
cheaper overseas.
Andy
"Andy Sollis CVMRD" wrote
I guess it just shows a different philosophy on supporting local businesses
to that employed by Peco. The latter (as I've reported on here before)
insist on buying postage stamps from their local Post Office rather than
using a franking machine, in the belief that the extra turnover will help in
retaining their local postal facility.
John.
Hornby could be thinking of saving money for customers by passing on the
cheaper costs of printing by reducing the price.
Cheers,
Simon
(Hurray for hornby, where would we be without them - note thats rhetorical)
"simon" wrote
Except their more likely to think in terms of increased profit for
shareholders rather than reduced prices. Simple comparison between similar
items in the Hornby and Bachmann ranges seem to suggest that Hornby charge
up to 20% more for a similar item.
You should also remember that Hornby shifted production to China to secure
lower production costs. Did that result in lower retail prices?
John.
"simon" wrote
More likely because people didn't buy the 2006 catalogue in sufficient
numbers.
Check the cost of Hornby's catalogue over the past five years and see how
the cost has shifted in relation to the retail prices index.
John.
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