Prices up

[kawasemi]

I went onto the Woodlore site this evening to buy the next few months stock of Pine Tar soap (love the stuff, it is absolutely brilliant, and the smell is great!!).

But...is it just me, not having been on Ray's site for a while, but prices seemed to have jumped - £95 for a pouch, £95 for a book cover, £90 for a knife sheath, etc.... ouch!!

Fortunately my favourite soap has stayed the same price....phew

 

[forestwalker]

Also, the shipping costs have gone UP. It used to be that the postage to Sweden from RM was reasonable, but these days it does things like doubling the price of a book.

 

[rik_uk3]

Shipping prices have gone up a lot this last year or so; I recently shipped a stove to the USA and was stunned at how much courier prices had risen.

 

[TarHeelBrit]

Sadly postage/shipping prices have gone up worldwide. To the point where if I see anything overseas I have to factor in the post costs, as a frequent visitor to BC-US there's lots of gear I would like but the post costs put me off. There are a few steel strikers I like but for a $20 striker the post cost is more than half the cost of the striker. It's not the vendors fault they have to cover post costs or end up loosing money.

I recently sent my brother in law a Spurs shirt and the postage cost of that was about 9GBP international tracked and signed for. Trouble is the big vendors can go to the Royal Mail or USPS and tell them we'll ship XX thousands of units and we'll pay this for each unit and the postal company agrees knowing it's guaranteed money and they make up the difference by upping the costs for the little guy occasional shipper.