Crosslee Parts

[delta01]

Hi i live near the Crosslee Factory and used to get parts directly from them , i cant believe it , they have obviously sold all the earlier model parts off and consequently the prices have gone up as much as 500 {e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} making some repairs not economical , Apparently the new models are all made in China, these people have no loyalty to this Country ,Greed rules ! as usual today

[electrofix]

its not greed its cost. the cost of manufacturing and employing here is so costly that they had to do it. We know they did not want to but with all the employment rights etc and recently the pension changes it raises the cost of employing people. This in turn has a knock on effect on the cost per item leaving the factory. If you unit cost is too high you want sell product

Dave

[kwatt]

And that will get worse by the looks of it if the cost of importing/exporting rises due to the UK’s exit from the EU.

Basically, before Covid and Brexit making low-cost goods in the UK and most of the EU was not commercially viable, hence the migration to lower labour cost areas but after that double whammy… totally nonsensical to try to make much of anything where the margins are wafer-thin.

What really gets my goat and, it is a personal opinion, is people thinking that “common sense” and “duty to country” will make people buy British. It won’t.

People will act in their own self-interests and buy the what suits them at the lowest cost they can and we should all know that (perhaps of a certain age) all too well where the numpties would use the “free call out brigade” and didn’t bother to look beyond that one word, free. And with all that buy cheap no-name branded junk that most probably you all see every day.

Humans are often utterly predictable.

K.

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