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A little bird tells me that supply of ISE 2′ & 5’s is about to run dry with no replacement in place until March or later for the 2 and nothing sorted on the ISE 5’s yet?
I understand the need to keep things ‘in house’ so a reply via e-mail would suffice.
It would save me making an arseole of myself, telling my customers to go and have a look at machines that we do not have. 😉
Jim.
Re: Supply gap?
We have no more ISE2’s as of now. We have refused to reorder them as the price hike is just too great, it would make them over £300 for the current machine and we feel that’s to much for it.
Sorry, but as much as I’d like to be able to, I’m not going to offer something that isn’t competitive and value for money, John feels the same. Call us old fashioned but we just think we have to be fair to you guys and the customers.
ISE5 should be okay till about the end of next month.
The removal of the induction motor AND a price hike makes it difficult to justify the price yet again.
We do have a plan though. 😉
K.
We are now very close to be able to unvail the options on our new machine, I was in Anglesey yesterday and am going to Kilmarnock on Thursday to drop off machines for testing.
I will then be receiving fully specked prototypes before the end of the Month which I will show to all our long term agents including a trip up to Dundee, Leeds, Manchester, Hull, Bristol, London, Kent the midlands, East Anglia, Dorset – I may not get to cornwall) prior to us making a final decision in a side room at the WTA meeting on the 20th February. With pre-booked production and a lot of work already been done we hope to have the new machine in place, with tec info, user manuals and spares when the fives run out early March.
Face to face I can explain fully to issues and involved without being guarded, but all suppliers are in the same boat.
Once the current UK stocks have gone the full impact of the Euro will hit forcing up prices for everyone and with many retailers and distributors unable to get credit from factories, even more will have to rationalise their range and others will be forced into receivership. By the time the market stablises (hopefully by the summer) is going look very different place, at which point we can look again at our range from a position of strength with much of the competition gone.
At the moment we are just trying to ride out a storm by getting a machine that we can be proud off, at a price point that represents good value for money for and your customers (ideally fixed for one year) Your contiued support is greatly appreciated and all will become clear shortly.
Expect a call soon.
John
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