why has the dollar going back to normal increased prices? the prices didnt drop when the dollar was high, but now its used as an excuse to raise the prices.. when in fact its just back to the normal exchange rate, in fact its still a bit better than it normally was for years...
so if the gun was $1200 before the huge rise in the dollar, stayed at $1200 during the rise, and now the dollar is back to the same level its $1600+... doesnt make sense..
in 2007 $1CAD = $0.65USD... gun cost $1200.. so why today when $1CAD = $0.85USD does it cost $1600?? the exchange rate is still better than historically it has been.. but it seems to be used as an excuse to rape us with the prices... the dollar hasnt gone nuts as you say. its just gone back to a more normal rate..
Your pulling numbers out of a hat and it has nothing to do with what I said or what the price of that gun is.
What I said was that when we bought and paid for that gun (that is in stock still) we paid currency exchange at a lower rate than it is for us to buy the same gun now from SIG... back last summer/fall we paid for the gun at 2008 pricing and using dollars that were almost PAR... so we are selling the gun at the same price we were selling it for back then. If you want us to order you one from SIG now or if you look on our website and see the 40S&W version for example, you'll see that the price shown is considerably higher than $1,299 and that's simply because each gun is purchased at a different time and therefore at a different exchange rate so a different cost... it's running anywhere from 1.25 up to 1.30 over the past few weeks and so that adds nearly 25% to the price of the gun over what the same gun was costing us middle of last year.
I don't have any SIG's left that we bought and paid for in 2007 so I have no idea why you would quote me figures based on those dates... it's meaningless. I would also question the accuracy of your figures... according to my banking records the US dollar was costing us about 1.15 Canadian dollars in early 2007 and before the end of 2007 it had actually reached PAR with the Canadian dollar... so your statement that the US dollar was at .65 cents Canadian appears to be incorrect.
Let me point out to you that an .80 cent Canadian dollar (which is mid-point of where it's been trading the past few weeks... from .77 to .82 range) represents a 25% exchange rate... in other words... it costs 125% to buy a US dollar (about $1.25 Canadian to buy $1.00 US). Add to that the bank's 1.5 to 2% surcharge.
What does that mean in real terms? It means that a gun that we paid $1,000 US for at the end of 2007 cost us @ $1,000 to $1,050 Canadian dollars in 2007 (PAR)... and that exact same gun at today's currency exchange rate costs us $1,250 to $1,275.00... 25% more.
I also take exception to your statement that we're using currency as an "excuse to raise prices". I don't make excuses... I deliver products and keep my commitments. I import products and I set my prices... I make no apologies and offer no excuses. If you don't like my products or my prices then don't buy from me... simple as that.
I don't create currency exchange costs... export rules... duty and GST fees... shipping costs... brokerage fees... government red tape... etc.. I live with all of that daily... I'm not making an excuse I'm stating a fact.
My POST was simply to confirm that the gun being discussed was in fact priced lower than the other models and to explain why that came about... no excuse...
As far as "raping you"... you can go "rape" yourself... I have no desire or intention of doing it for you... if you care to send me your real name I'd be happy to insure we never sell anything to you and that way we can't possible "rape you" as you suggest.
With all due respect (which from what I can see is NONE)...
Bite Me!!!
Mark
No different than a reg 226. But if you like it, go ahead. 
