Price jump on Furuno

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I was walking the harbor this morning. I stopped into my favorite marine electronic stores. My friend Tom works there. He mentioned that prices were going up mid April on Furuno. He added that the 1715 radar I was looking at would go up $450. Wow, the unit sells for $1300 to $1500 in the first place.

I'm assuming this is because of the devaluated American dollar.
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Agree w/ BTG. Boat sales are abysmal. Sales of all ancillary boat stuff will follow suit soon. I bet around July it can be had for under a grand just to get rid of it. Unless of course, someone takes the bait BTG lays out.
 
If anybody can hold a price jump it's Furuno. They have the reputation for making the best radar units. I forget where they are made but it may have something to do with the falling Dollar verses the Euro?
 
I bought mt wife a new 2007 Toyota Corolla S last year it was $17,000 USD. This year the same car (same color also) 2008 with same package $20,000 USD. And my income has not changed....!

"Another Toy" - 27 ft. express cruiser
 
Decline in the value of the dollar has a lot to do with it.
 
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Originally posted by KiDa

Decline in the value of the dollar has a lot to do with it.

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That's why you're paying so much at the pump. It's easy to blame the oil companies on price gouging, but the real problem is the fact that the dollar is going down the toilet.
 
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Originally posted by UpperDecker

quote:
Originally posted by KiDa

Decline in the value of the dollar has a lot to do with it.

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That's why you're paying so much at the pump. It's easy to blame the oil companies on price gouging, but the real problem is the fact that the dollar is going down the toilet.

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It's easy to blame a declining dollar, but it's not as simple as that. This chart shows that gas prices are increasing, in lockstep, everywhere in the world and in every major currency:
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Thanks to all the outsourcing we've done, more and more people in India and China now can afford to have a car. Something unheard of as little as ten years ago. The result is a demand for more more oil and thus a drastic increase in price.

And of course, the oil companies are not innocent in all this either. They're taking advantage of the situation and recording record profits along the way.

Combine all this with a weak dollar and you'll see $5 at the pump real soon.
 
Two separate Santa Cruz dealers confirmed the end of April price jump.
 
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