How is the Japan disaster going to affect our industry?
03-15-2011, 06:45 PM
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How is the Japan disaster going to affect our industry?
Hate to be the 1st to say it, but how is the Japan disaster going to affect our industry?
If I ordered a custom part from there recently, I wouldn't expect it to come, and I would cut my loss right there.
Yeah yeah yeah all made in China. But the buck stops there. If Japan can't pay em, they certainly will not make it. That's how they operate over there - cheap labor, little if any human rights, etc . . . .
If I ordered a custom part from there recently, I wouldn't expect it to come, and I would cut my loss right there.
Yeah yeah yeah all made in China. But the buck stops there. If Japan can't pay em, they certainly will not make it. That's how they operate over there - cheap labor, little if any human rights, etc . . . .
03-15-2011, 07:47 PM
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pries on japanese goods will rise... just like when there is turmoil in the middle east our gas prices skyrocket whether its just or not
03-15-2011, 08:02 PM
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Given that thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, are likely dead, maybe 500,000 are homeless and perhaps a million people are freezing without power, water, or food right now I seriously cannot give one second of thought to how this will impact our playing with toy airplanes hobby.
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RE: How is the Japan disaster going to affect our industry?
Yes. The news is getting quite dire.
I have hope though. It will take time, but the Japanese are resilient people. I trust that they will thrive faster than we think, as per usual.
I have hope though. It will take time, but the Japanese are resilient people. I trust that they will thrive faster than we think, as per usual.
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RE: How is the Japan disaster going to affect our industry?
ORIGINAL: dragnse7en
Hate to be the 1st to say it, but how is the Japan disaster going to affect our industry?
If I ordered a custom part from there recently, I wouldn't expect it to come, and I would cut my loss right there.
Yeah yeah yeah all made in China. But the buck stops there. If Japan can't pay em, they certainly will not make it. That's how they operate over there - cheap labor, little if any human rights, etc . . . .
Hate to be the 1st to say it, but how is the Japan disaster going to affect our industry?
If I ordered a custom part from there recently, I wouldn't expect it to come, and I would cut my loss right there.
Yeah yeah yeah all made in China. But the buck stops there. If Japan can't pay em, they certainly will not make it. That's how they operate over there - cheap labor, little if any human rights, etc . . . .
If there is a price increase, I feel it will be driven by the distributors in the USA, not by the manufacturers in Japan.
Even with the catastrophe the Japanese GDP is only expected to decrease by .1% which means that the whole country has not come to a screeching halt, just like the
USA economy did not come to a halt because of hurricane Katrina.
03-16-2011, 08:21 AM
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RE: How is the Japan disaster going to affect our industry?
ORIGINAL: Silent-AV8R
Given that thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, are likely dead, maybe 500,000 are homeless and perhaps a million people are freezing without power, water, or food right now I seriously cannot give one second of thought to how this will impact our playing with toy airplanes hobby.
Given that thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, are likely dead, maybe 500,000 are homeless and perhaps a million people are freezing without power, water, or food right now I seriously cannot give one second of thought to how this will impact our playing with toy airplanes hobby.
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RE: How is the Japan disaster going to affect our industry?
ORIGINAL: rcairflr
Unless you are a manufacturer, retailer, wholesaler or repair shop, you are not in the "industry", you are in the "hobby".
If there is a price increase, I feel it will be driven by the distributors in the USA, not by the manufacturers in Japan.
Even with the catastrophe the Japanese GDP is only expected to decrease by .1% which means that the whole country has not come to a screeching halt, just like the
USA economy did not come to a halt because of hurricane Katrina.
Unless you are a manufacturer, retailer, wholesaler or repair shop, you are not in the "industry", you are in the "hobby".
If there is a price increase, I feel it will be driven by the distributors in the USA, not by the manufacturers in Japan.
Even with the catastrophe the Japanese GDP is only expected to decrease by .1% which means that the whole country has not come to a screeching halt, just like the
USA economy did not come to a halt because of hurricane Katrina.
Way to go!!!!
