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--- Quote from: Dreamwriter on July 03, 2006, 04:30:16 pm ---Just ordered some nickel tokens for my "Games of Yore" project.  I started the project with perfect timing to be doing it just as this comes to fruition!

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your making your cabinet out of apples and oranges??
Santoro:
We are about 60% of the way there to break on ordering only brass, and 20% to getting both.   I will put a post out on Usenet, that might help.  The demand comes in waves, I'll bet there will be another surge of orders when everyone gets back in the office on Wednedsay after the US holiday.  Lots of slackers goofing off at work around here . ;)
Santoro:
Uh Oh.    :badmood: :censored:

The mint we use raised prices by 16%.  I will be looking into 1) negotiating a better price, 2) other suppliers, and 3) pricing adjustments over then next few days.  Until then, the ordering site is down.

Those that have already placed preorders will be given an opportunity to get a refund if we decide we need to raise prices.  I will email all those affected with options (hopefully) within a week.

I apologize for this hiccough.  I will do whatever I can to keep the price as low as I can.  I can only guess that Brass prices have gone up significantly... I know precious metals have.


GadgetGeek:

--- Quote from: Santoro on July 03, 2006, 08:04:54 pm ---I apologize for this hiccough.  I will do whatever I can to keep the price as low as I can.  I can only guess that Brass prices have gone up significantly... I know precious metals have.

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No metal is more precious than our precious BYOAC tokens!!!!

Quick math shows that 16% on a 200 count lot is about $5.50.  I speak only for myself when I say I'm OK with that.  Especially with this years awesome designs.  So if that means I have to send a second paypal for the diff, let me know.

They must be using some sort of gas powered minting process.  I blame everything else on gas prices so why not this too.

Good luck with the negotiations.
Santoro:
With some help from Google, I discovered that Brass is made from Copper and Zinc.  It seemes that the price of copper in the commodities market has almost tripled since 2004, and zinc has gone up a lot too, so it seems price increases will probably be unavoidable.  I am actually surprised they kept the prices where they were through last year. 

I will work the new pricing this week and notify everyone.  If the pricing redcues demand a lot, it may be harder to reach our break-even.  Let's cross our fingers.


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