ATTENTION!!

[Bob]

If I had gotten the BIG tax return I was getting told about maybe I’d be able to justify it better but after paying for the SK and my 100K tune up I’m a BROKE child! OH when is it going to rain???

[Arlla]

Oh NOOO! 😯 … 😥

"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."
-J R R Tolkien

[Skigod377]

littleironhorse wrote:

Thanks for the heads up Ski! I was going to wait a while to get my very last missing fledgling, the black gold, since he is current production. But I decided to get him now.

You’re welcome.

I will have to get used to it, too. Im glad I have almost everything. I wonder if the increase is because of inflation?

[Bob]

I’m going ot try adn find out when I go down there on Momday. I remember we just had a price increase a year ago

[Maria]

The last price increase was only a year ago?! And they already raise the prices again by 15%? Ouch ouch ouch. 😥

[wolflodge100]

Windstone sent us dealers a letter explaining the reasons, some of which are higher cost of materials and a huge hike in thier rent 😕 so don’t be upset, just be glad they are still around 😯

[Maria]

So it doesn’t mean they’re not doing so well financially, or that sales have gone down or anything like that? That’s good news!

[Alyssa]

That is true. I am glad that they are still around. I have also noticed that they are losing money on the empea male and mother auctions.

[Maria]

I noticed that too. I’m wondering how much these signed pieces will go for.
Of course – they’re not actually losing money. The $130 for a male is retail – production costs about half of that. They’re just not making as much profit – which isn’t great either.

[Alyssa]

Yeah, I guess that is true. But the signed peices should be worth more than the retail ones and the final price should be higher on the auction as well. What I don’t get is the Young is going for just as much as the Male and Mother.

[Maria]

I think people figure in the beginning that it’s smaller, it’ll go for less, and then they get outbid and decide it’s actually worth $100+ because it’s signed, and forget about the parents. Maybe. Or maybe the smaller ones are more popular by definition. Think of the cowpies…

[Ettevy]

The young dragon may be more popular because it takes up less room on the shelf and leaves more room for other pieces….

[Chessapeaka]

skigod377 wrote:

littleironhorse wrote:

Thanks for the heads up Ski! I was going to wait a while to get my very last missing fledgling, the black gold, since he is current production. But I decided to get him now.

You’re welcome.

I will have to get used to it, too. Im glad I have almost everything. I wonder if the increase is because of inflation?

Inflation plus what Wolflodge100 said. If I understand correctly, the price increase meets mostly with inflation–so they aren’t really THAT much more expensive, they only SEEM that way.

Thanks for not ditching us! 😆

[lamortefille]

After paying so much for retired pieces, limited productions and custom jobs, the regular production pieces still seem like a bargain to me. 😆

[Bob]

it’s the increase on the Emperor’s that hurt the most at least for me. they just got raised to $300 a year a go and now they are $350. It’s difficult to rationlize it when that is now more then my 2nd mortgage. the others I can swallow and go with but $700 plus tax for 2 dragons is getting tight.
Too bad we couldn’t all picth in and buy you a wharehouse so you NEVER have to pay rent again!!!

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