Thread: Carbatec Prices going up

I have a sneaking suspicion that what we are witnessing here is not just a price rise from Carbatec but a repositioning of Carbatec in the market place.

I think they have watched, in particular, Jet selling generic Chiwanese machinery with a distinctive paint job at inflated prices and an "aura" of better quality.

This thinking would be behind their new colour scheme as well, but it isn't very different from Hare & Forbes.

Ultimately the market place will decide, after all it is Carbatecs' prerogative to determine the prices they need to sell at to stay in business, just as it is the customers' prerogative to judge that they are not getting value for money.

The big problem is items such as the Veritas range. Now that MIK is gone and others only have a very limited range (Northwoods, Timbecon, Lumber Bunker)
there is not a lot of alternatives.

Yep, know the feeling, wandered off there to pick up a long bed 6 inch buzzer last Saturday and it had gone up by about 70 bucks over catalogue price. Still am happy with the buzzer so I guess I cannot complain.

Ciao,

M.

I think it's a bit rough these price rises. I was shortly going to put an order through Carbatec. One of the items I was going to get was the Veritas MKII guide - gone from $79 to $95. 20%. That's rubbish in my opinion. It's hard enough as it is to get money to buy tools for the hobby you love, but now you have to find a stack more! Everything else I was going to order has gone up too. I don't know if I'll bother putting my order in now

Cheers,

Will

Was in at Carbatec this afternoon and there is a few signs up saying that prices have gone up due to rising costs and the falling Aussie $

I think we need to be realistic here, a reseller like carbatec cannot afford to absorb the cost rises due to the declining dollar and fluctuating financial markets. The cost is passed on to us and unfortunately a lot of the time it means that a lot of us will put off purchases as a consequence. This is inevitable, but on the other hand we cannot expect them to sell equipment at cost. Although the profit margins of chinese handtools can be considerable the profit margins on machinery are a lot less and hence the RRP is more likely to be affected to maintain profitability.

Marios

What you will find with most retailers is that if you go to the shop or give them a call you will still get the goods at the original price.If in stock.

It is only new stock that there will be the price hike on.

The web sit has to be updated at some stage so by doing it now they are showing you what the new price will be on goods coming in.

I know there has been a big lag in shipments coming out of china and that has affected everyone, most companies were hoping to get stock before the shows but they did not turn up.

All stock coming in now has the full effect of the falling $ so prices are expected to jump up, there is no sign on the horizon that our $ will get to the heady heights of 98c but is forcast to go to the mid 70,s.

Give them a call and find out direct.

Originally Posted by DJ's Timber

Was in at Carbatec this afternoon and there is a few signs up saying that prices have gone up due to rising costs and the falling Aussie $

so does that mean that when the economy recovers the prices will go back down ?(i think not)still think they are profiteering from the downslide.....bob

Originally Posted by robyn2839

so does that mean that when the economy recovers the prices will go back down ?(i think not)still think they are profiteering from the downslide.....bob

Not trying to get into a debate about profiteering here Bob, but I can remember that when I first bought my CTJ-350 (8" jointer) and CTJ-680 (15" Thicknesser) about 8 or 10 yrs ago they were originally priced at $1595 ea whereas today they are priced at $1395 for the jointer and $1449 for the Thicknesser which is still less then what they were originally priced back then, so they do lower prices when they can

and when i bought my first cd rom i paid $500 and $1200 for my first colour telly,$400 dvd player,thats just that everything gets cheaper eventually,but we have had drops in the aussie dollar and stock market crashes,but the retail stores didn,t try to skin us with price rises ,and if so not rediculous ones..bob

Originally Posted by robyn2839

so does that mean that when the economy recovers the prices will go back down ?(i think not)still think they are profiteering from the downslide.....bob

With the increasing interest rates over the past few years with the RBA trying to control inflation, I've been thinking we've been shielded by the little aussie battler's fine showing.

Now it's run out of puff, the shield's gone.

(and if you think your shares have done poorly in the past year, think on the losses Yanks might have made: not only the 50% on shares some investors have incurred, but also a pretty hefty currency loss).

Originally Posted by DJ's Timber

Not trying to get into a debate about profiteering here Bob, but I can remember that when I first bought my CTJ-350 (8" jointer) and CTJ-680 (15" Thicknesser) about 8 or 10 yrs ago they were originally priced at $1595 ea whereas today they are priced at $1395 for the jointer and $1449 for the Thicknesser which is still less then what they were originally priced back then, so they do lower prices when they can

Agree with DJ. For the non believers go back over the last few years and have a look at the price of some of the tools that were around then and are still selling... For example the TSC saw. Despite inflation the prices remained stable.