New, improved MSL prices

May 8, 2008

As I mentioned two postings ago, the weak dollar is jacking up our Japanese  prices so much that we can either stop selling it or raise prices, and since our entire business and all of these jobs and our whole dang company is so largely Japanese-centric, there is no actual decision to make, and prices are going up enough to Minimum Sustainable Levels (MSL) effective today at about 3pm Western Time.
As anybody who works here at Rivendell knows, I don't like raising prices, but I much less rather like bleeding the business until it dies, so without further apology, that's what's going on.
Now: If you're a member, you still get a five percent rebate credit based on your calendar year's purchase, you still get free shipping on most orders over $150, and on orders less than $150, our $8 flat-rate is still cheap.

The MSL prices are much healthier for us. They aren't that much higher. Moustache H'bars were $52, and now they're $60. Noodle Bars went from $52 to $60, too. Nothing worse than that, and Nitto hardware is the best and the world, and still well below the prices of name-brand equivalents made not as well and not as beautiful in countries where the labor costs are a small fraction of what Japan's are.

Thanks......  Grant (on behalf of all of us here)