I take it this will be a relative price rather than an absolute one i.e. your film price will rise with increasing costs but other economies such as you have mentioned will hopefully result in the Catlabs 320 price being even less relatively speaking to those of other b&w films
Will the increased efficiency in supply chain optimisation affect only your U.S. price or will it make a difference to other markets' prices
Thanks
pentaxuser
I think i finally figured out the problem here:
Instead of "reading between the lines" and making far reaching assumptions, one could just read what i wrote. Nothing more, nothing less.
If one goes out of the way to avoid the simple meaning of things plainly laid out before them, the end is often some ludicrous conspiracy theory with little (or none, in this case) contact with reality, this post, like others before it then goes to put word in my mouth, that i did not speak and that could not be father from the ones i did.
For decades (and mostly to this very day), film companies relied on archaic models of international distribution resulting in massive discrepancies in pricing between various regional markets. These were massive, multinational, mega million dollar business. Our distribution model is stripped down to the bare bone, as far as possible, to avoid this issue. The base price of our film, if purchased from outside the US, for a single roll, might be prohibitive. When you buy 10, the shipping component is reduced to a 10-15% "landed cost" on top of the base price, which is the same for everyone, this is an 80-85% price reduction for international buyers.
FWIW, we actually subsidize a part of the international shipping component because we recognize it might be off putting right of the mark, for some, to see the actual shipping cost for a single roll of film.
If you buy more than 10, say 20 or 30 rolls, that "landed cost" is reduced by another 50-60% per 10 rolls.
Now, i did write 3.1 paragraphs here with lots of info, vague comments, philosophical observations about the world and other things, but please, do not read too much into it, between the lines or words. If the face value of what i wrote is not enough (and no doubt for many here it wont be), just consider you might want to direct the speculative assumptions inwards and channel your inner Scott Seiss for a bit
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