USA dollar reached 1.10 first time in 5 years

westrifle_sks

westrifle_sks

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USA dollar reached 1.10 first time in 5 years. What do you think the prices be for 2014 because of that. I say that everything will go up by 10%. I think it is time to buy all of those AR and ammo that produced by Us companies because that 10% will be passed to consumer.
 
In many cases Canadian pricing never went down as much as it should of/could of but I would not be surprised to see everyone hiking prices.....sort of like the fuel surcharge in trucking, it never goes away.
 
It will kick start any manufacturing base that we still have left in Canada, tourism is already up, the film business will rebound a bit - all in all a good thing for us. But yeah, buy up your stuff now.
 
Cant buy everything you want up front, but i am proud to been able to secured a lot items at today's price... JP.
 
I read somewhere the other day that the reason there is always a big price difference is because Canadians have grown accustom to higher prices. how much BS is that! accustom my ass!
Why would you even use that as an answer.
 
Yes, it is time for the retailers to double the prices of everything because of the lower dollar value (because they have to pay more "whole sale"). Funny how when out dollar crimbed .40 cents there was no appreciable difference in pricing, only profit margin.
 
Don't forget the numbers shown on TV and in the media are the inter bank rates, when we actually transfer funds the banks add their cut.

I just paid a USD invoice the after the bank fees only got .88 cents USD for a CDN dollar.

We currently sell most of our products at the USD MSRP but if the dollar continues to drop to the forecast level of .85 inter bank rate you may see prices at the cash register jump by 15%-20%

I can assure you as a dealer here that the last thing I want to do is increase any prices but at the end of the day we won't remain in business if we don't. I am giving it another week before I make any decisions about pricing but price increases look to be inevitable. I am sure all the dealers are facing the same dilemma right now. To date we have been lucky as we only started in business March 1st last year so this is the 1st measurable variance we have seen.
 
Cteve said:
I read somewhere the other day that the reason there is always a big price difference is because Canadians have grown accustom to higher prices. how much BS is that! accustom my ass!
Why would you even use that as an answer.
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They have become accustomed to being screwed, I waited for the price of quads to drop but they didn't, I refused to pay a 40% premium over what they were in the US
but I saw retard after retard buy them with no money down and a couple hundred a month. I bet none of them even knew the interest rate they were paying but hell it was cheep only a couple of hundred a month.
Why do you think Cabellas and all the other American retailers flooded up here when the dollar hit par. They knew we were to stupid or disciplined to refuse to buy unless we got par pricing.

It's our own fault.
 
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