Looks like Festools are going up. Check out...
http://www.mcfeelys.com/info/festool-alert2.htm
....for more information.

JP

On Dec 6, 3:35*pm, Jay Pique wrote:
Looks like Festools are going up. *Check out...http://www.mcfeelys.com/info/festool-alert2.htm
...for more information.

JP

The crevice nozzle has one of the biggest increases at 14+%. You know
why? They want to keep them for themselves and suck the money out of
your pocket.

Somehow "Festool prices" and "crevice nozzel" seem to fit very well
together in the same sentence.


On Dec 6, 1:57*pm, Robatoy wrote:
On Dec 6, 3:35*pm, Jay Pique wrote:

Looks like Festools are going up. *Check out...http://www.mcfeelys.com/info/festool-alert2.htm
...for more information.

JP

The crevice nozzle has one of the biggest increases at 14+%. You know
why? They want to keep them for themselves and suck the money out of
your pocket.

I just hope their marketing department does not find a way to make it
retroactive.

Marc

Additional comments;
I heard this on NPR last week and I was thinking about Festool and its
relationship with its retailers.
Here's the link and the pasted transcript.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...oryId=97826122

Bill Would End Manufacturers' Price-Setting Power
by Jeff Brady

All Things Considered, December 4, 2008 · A fight is brewing in
Washington over whether manufacturers should have the right to set
minimum retail prices for the products they make.

For nearly a century, courts have banned the practice under antitrust
laws. In July 2007, however, the Supreme Court overturned nearly a
century of precedence, upsetting retailers such as eBay and Costco.

Now those retailers are lobbying for a bill that would bypass the
court decision.

History

The case centered on a brand of purses called Brighton, made by Leegin
Creative Leather Products in Pasadena, Calif. Leegin sells to
independent retailers, not big chains like Macy's and Bloomingdale's.

Phil Smith was one of those retailers. He owned a story called Kay's
Kloset in suburban Dallas. In order to compete with a nearby airport
shop that gave airline employees a 20 percent discount, he slashed
prices by that much for all his customers.

Leegin stopped shipping purses to Smith. He subsequently went out of
business and took the company to court.

"It is an insult to my status as an independent retailer to have my
prices dictated by a manufacturer," Smith said.

The case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, where Smith lost.

"Allowing price fixing will result in higher retail prices, lower
store sales volumes, lower store profits and higher business
failures," Smith said.

The majority of justices, however, considered other factors in
deciding to overturn existing antitrust law and once again allowing
manufacturers and retailers to agree on minimum prices. They said in
their ruling that allowing the practice would provide some stores with
more profits that may "give consumers more options to choose among low-
price, low-service brands; high-price, high-service brands; and brands
falling in between."

Price Fixing Vs. Brand Maintenance

EBay's chief lobbyist, Tod Cohen, blames the decision on the makeup of
the current court. He said the court, dominated by conservative
justices, sided with big-business interests "versus traditional
antitrust doctrine which has been far more of a progressive value
rather than a conservative value."

When critics refer to the practice of setting minimum prices, they
call it price fixing. But Jerry Kohl, the owner of Leegin, calls it
"brand maintenance." He says it's important his independent retailers
don't start undercutting each other's prices and cheapening the
Brighton brand.

Kohl also dismisses dire predictions that the Supreme Court decision
will raise prices for consumers and put small retailers out of
business.

"You want to see how it's affected prices — walk into Neiman's today,"
Kohl said. "Almost the entire store is on sale. So, obviously not much
has changed."

Of course, there is a deep recession under way. Still, Kohl says his
case changed only one thing.

"Now it's not automatically illegal for people to talk about setting
prices, before it was automatically illegal," he says.

Proposed Legislation

Now, if a retailer thinks price-setting is unfair, it can take a
manufacturer to court. In legal language, this is called the "rule of
reason." Critics, however, say few retailers actually would go to the
expense and headache of filing such a lawsuit.

"To think about bringing a case like that against a giant with
enormous resources is really unrealistic," said Seth Bloom, senior
counsel of the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy
and Consumer Rights. "So it's nice to say, in an academic way, rule of
reason is available, but I think this is about what practically
happens in the marketplace."

That's one reason Bloom's boss, Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI), is sponsoring
legislation that bypasses the Supreme Court ruling and makes all price-
setting by manufacturers illegal again.

SonomaProducts.com wrote:
Somehow "Festool prices" and "crevice nozzel" seem to fit very well
together in the same sentence.

I hate price increases...

However, I do have to admit that McFeeley's has a very open and classy
way of going about it.

marc rosen wrote:
I just hope their marketing department does not find a way to make it
retroactive.


Shhhh...

Don't give the corporate folks ideas. I work for a company that would
probably try this!

You walk to the mailbox and open the first letter:

"Dear Joe Smith,

We value your business, as nothing is more important than our customers.

We value you so much, that we will allow you the opportunity to remit
$120 ($10/mo. x 12 months) for a retroactive price increase, for the
exciting service we provided to you last year.

Failure to pay will result in damage to your credit history and
immediate disconnection from current service.

Thanks for Choosing..."

On Dec 6, 7:26 pm, marc rosen wrote:

SNIP

That's one reason Bloom's boss, Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI), is sponsoring
legislation that bypasses the Supreme Court ruling and makes all price-
setting by manufacturers illegal again.

On the other hand, I would think that the easiest way to get around
that is to sign an iron clad agreement that said that the supplier/
manufacturer's agreement with the seller was founded on the idea that
they sold the product as a representative of the company. You
would not be in independent businessman simply purchasing goods for
resale. This is how the old MLM guys did it in the 90s.

If you sold vitamins, personal alarms, water purifiers and all the
other stuff that was sold by the MLM guys, you were simply
representing the interests of the parent company, even if you sold
other goods. You had no price control at all, and in the event of
your demise as a rep, they bought back the remaining supplies at
pennies on the dollar. Although many did, you weren't supposed to
discount their product price in any way under your agreement to rep
for them.

Robert

On Sat, 6 Dec 2008 12:35:07 -0800 (PST), Jay Pique
wrote:

Looks like Festools are going up. Check out...
http://www.mcfeelys.com/info/festool-alert2.htm
...for more information.

JP

Good plan in this economy!

On Sat, 6 Dec 2008 20:35:07 +0000, Jay Pique wrote
(in article
):

Looks like Festools are going up. Check out...
http://www.mcfeelys.com/info/festool-alert2.htm
...for more information.

JP

Oh.. that'll probably take their stuff out of reach of the average bloke,
then.

On Dec 7, 9:07*am, Bored Borg
wrote:
On Sat, 6 Dec 2008 20:35:07 +0000, Jay Pique wrote
(in article
):

Looks like Festools are going up. *Check out...
http://www.mcfeelys.com/info/festool-alert2.htm
...for more information.

JP

Oh.. that'll probably take their stuff out of reach of the average bloke,
then.

G... yup.
But seriously, I don't think that's the market they're after.

"Robatoy" wrote in message
G... yup.
But seriously, I don't think that's the market they're after.

Well, with a recession in the works, the wealth are the only ones that are
going to have money to spend anyway. Might as well market to them.

But seriously, I don't think that's the market they're after.

Well, with a recession in the works, the wealth are the only ones that are
going to have money to spend anyway. Might as well market to them.


Especially after their taxes go up so much, they have to lay off
employees to afford their Festool(s).


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