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Due to shipping containers stuck on board ships and avoiding Suez Canal due to missle attacks on ships being the cause of having to reroute via Cape of Good Hope the costs of transport per container has rocketed from say 2000 dollars to 15,000 dollars per container (apparently) and so therefore will the contents – but it is also mostly down to ship insurance costs. That`s gotta hurt! This will be passed over to final consumers via the actual spares plus a mark up at point of fitting no-doubt plus VAT.
Qualtex have a note on their spares site notifying trade members of impending delays and increase costs. Since most of Qualtex, Maddocks and European manufacturers all get their top quality spares that simply ouze with outstanding quality (yeah, right!) from the Land of Dodgy Quick Buck Dealings, i.e. China. Previous to Revoluntionary Hoothies lobbing missiles at European but especially of course UK and USA shipping. Prior to this unfortunate present situation spares prices increased post Pandemic, due to clawing back lost profits, then cost of living due to interest rate inflation rises , some parts went up with a bang, then in the case of Hotpoint/Indesit Hoover/Candyto dissuade folks from repairing the machines themselves (because of the freebee 10 year parts warranty: why sell a part for 45 quid that costs them £4 when you can charge labour at £130 and give the part away “free”) and now rockets being fired at shipping.
There is so much competition in new machine sales, despite the cartels, that whilst machine prices have risen and will continue to rise, no one other than those who want to get shot of parts due to retirement for example you never will get / or got discounted parts in the trade least to the public so as an anology it doesn`t go something like this:. as in Roman times, Marcus and Spensicus, buy one slave get one slave free unless of course you worked for Indesit back in the 1980s!. This will and has encourage manufacturers / importers to increase the warranty on their machine sales to the detriment of the independent repair sector = going the way of a blacksmith but with less flexibility, so not good.
Be interesting as to what will happen, so will prices fall (don`t be daft that never happens in this game) or will inflation push up take home pay to meet those higher costs (partially true) or neither of those but we just go domestically completely broke (probably that one with a council tax bill of 5k a year – except for Westminster, cheapest in UK) but that will not affect the top 5{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} who use magic wand money methods of increasing their wealth by buying lovely shares, housing assets and smart arse accountants at everyone elses expense and then rent back to make folk even poorer and make sure they keep it that way: slaves and masters: a UK Gov`t level playing field especially if basing it on a chinese made spirit level!Spares prices have been volatile for ages, you can check a price and go back 24 hours later to see it increased in some cases. It is often random, no universal increases as such on most I’ve seen and there are things you either ain’t gonna get or get quickly. We’ve seen delays on many things of late and sadly, whilst we get the blame in the eyes of some, there’s not a damn thing we can do about it.
End users don’t care or consider that issues in Ukraine and the Middle East are affecting it. Or indeed China should they decide to invade Taiwan or whatever.
All they care about is, can I get what I need, how fast and how much.
K.
“Spares prices have been volatile for ages” Not true. Prices were fairly static for many years certainly 2012 up to 2019. Since 2019 spares prices have soared for the reasons I noted. Prices have soared more than is necessary too, but whatever the reason they have still soared.
“All they care about is, can I get what I need, how fast and how much” How dare you demean the British public as mindless uneducated uncaring and unthinking if that wasn`t the case they`d be on streets arms in hand………..although I grant you you might have made a damn good point but purely only by default!
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