Rising Costs Due To Exchange Rates and Gasoline (Was olive oil question)

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Heck yeah!

 

I had to discontinue a line of decorative perfume bottles I carried for

years, which are from the UK. The supplier's price hadn't changed, but

after the exchange rate and increased cost of shipping were figured in,

I would have had to practically double the for sale price of the

bottles, and that wasn't happening!

 

Also a jewelry manufacturer that I work with is now charging a 20% " fuel

surcharge " on all their pieces due to their increased (shipping) costs

for the raw materials they use to make the jewelry.

 

... And yes about the VISA card 3% international transactions charge

Marge .. VISA even tried to do that to me when I made a payment to a

company whose offices are in the US and the raw material comes from

overseas to THEIR warehouse in the US and then ships within the US from

the US, but VISA tried to call it an international charge ... Both I AND

the supplier fought with VISA on that one (and won actually !!!

 

Sheesh!

 

*Smile*

Chris (list mom)

http://www.alittleolfactory.com

 

 

Marge Clark

At 10:49 PM 7/26/2006, you wrote:

>As an example, rose oil from the producers has risen approximately 235%

>since I first started importing from Bulgaria in the mid 90's. Other

raw

>materials aren't quite so drastic, but even domestic cert. organic

>grapefruit oil is more than 3 1/2 times what it was just last year.

 

agreeing with Marcia on this.

 

The real killer, above and beyond the basic increases in the cost of

commodities is both the exchange rate and the cost of gasoline.

 

We just ordered another shipment of the PET bail jars. The PRICE has

stayed

the same over three years. Our COST has increased 15% each year because

of

transportation charges escalating.

 

Yesterday I did a funds transfer to a Canadian distiller. The Canadian

dollar used to be worth 75 cents. Yesterday the transfer rate was 95

cents... adding 20% to what I paid, even tho the suppliers price

remained

constant.

 

And I don't know about anyone else's VISA cards...but ours are now

charging

an additional 3% for an " international transaction " ...

 

(The grapefruit increase is, I believe, because of the damage from the

hurricanes over the past two years....more than the loss of one year's

crop, the orchards and the fields they grow in received lasting damage.)

 

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