Hearthware I-Roast mid - July

[Andy]

Re: Hearthware I-Roast mid - July

We are talking to Les about a possible CoffeeSnobs special... please stay tuned.

Any news of this Andy??  Tim

Any day now we should have some news!
Les has been away and only just returned, Ill try and have a chat tomorrow and let you know.

A.

[Monti]

Re: Hearthware I-Roast mid - July

Id like to get one too, but not just yet. Maybe for Christmas. Id be very intrested in the price. Hope they can keep it low. I mean, the same as the overseas prices plus shipping. That would be nice.

[Andy]

Re: Hearthware I-Roast mid - July

Im sure its been mentioned before but...

The "gotcha" with our prices in Australia is the small volume of sales and big distances for shipping.

If the orders are less than a container full then the freight costs are quite high, then there is GST on the import, freight forwarding charges, paperwork, customs clearance charges, electrical approval, etc etc. In all its about the same amount of work for 10 as it would be for 10,000

Our biggest problem is that a few dozen roasters or even 100 of them is too small an order to ship cheaply and thus the extra per roaster is quite high.

Until we have roasters in every K-Mart and the public are buying them in their 1000s I dont think we will get close to the larger overseas market prices.

It will be interesting to see how good a CS price we can get, which will of course be even better if we can approach a supplier with a "real" bulk order.