THE COST OF BREXIT

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I have been looking to purchase a set of Premier carbs for some time now , just looked on the Amal site only to note the price has jumped from £109 to £115.86 plus VAT
Ouch !!!! i guess opting to leave the EU is the cause ( weak pound against the US dollar )
 
Or it could be just an annual price increase due to increased labor costs, shipping, etc. Nothing I buy for my Norton ever goes down.
 
It depends probably where you are in the world. As for most other EU countries the pound has weakened compared with the Swe Krona or the Euro which I would believe would make it for the moment cheaper to buy british parts from the UK. The swedish crown was weakened compared with US dollar after Brexit. Brexit hasn´t yet come to be fulfilled. Will be in some two years I think.

I would believe they´ve just increased the price.

2 almost new amal Mk 32 rests here in by me if any interest.
 
You must consider the exchange rate: before Brexit it was approx 1.56 GBP to the dollar; today's rate is 1.31.

109 GBP would have cost you 1.56 x 109 = $170; at today's rate 115.86 GBP costs you $151.77

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Considering the exchange rate it would be cheaper for the US citizen now then. Buy!
And no hardly a jump.
 
Can't see why they would increase the cost due to brexit, unless they have had to buy in stock since the vote and are going for a price rise early on existing stock to cover ongoing purchases - if they can get the parts cast and machined and delivered that quick I'd be surprised.

A british based and owned company has no interest on hiding british made stock from the UK market at the moment. Unlike non-british EU companies that have a UK presence.
 
It's a good time to buy from the US for sure. After the exchange dropped to 1.31 the shipping on some AN parts was almost covered for me.
 
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Much better for those across the pond to buy parts with the exchange rate as it is. However I would not leave it long :D
So far all the doom sayers have apologized or revised their claims. JP Morgan the IMF etc. The exchange rates, now the fear factor has scaled down & the money men have made as much money as they can, will start to climb. The euro is back to were it was last year.

The trouble with all this is "who has the common sence & the money to buy now" I always need something as soon as the prices go up.

Chris
 
Chris,

Totally agree, even the Indians and the Chinese know a bargain when the eurocrats don't. Companies now doing 'small' batch runs for them here and selling duty free into the europe even back to India in one case - easier, cheaper and saves the shipping hassle from outside the EU. By small I mean small in their terms, ie couple or few thousand.
Engineering wise the world is a smaller place and modern technology means the machines can be programmed and operated from the other side of the globe, with automated feed systems some now don't even need an operative, just someone to load the feed system. Even a 1T casting tool can now be replaced by a digital 'tool'
So make hay while the sunshines on the UK and buy those Norton parts before the Euro currency becomes worthless and the pound rises against it and other currencies.
 
Ted Bloomfield of Motor Cycle Shop in London told me decades ago that the average Norton owner has a corker helmet, dispatch riders coat and a purse!!
 
I don't know what a corker helmet is, but I'm pretty sure I don't have one! Ditto for dispatch coat. I do have a purse, several actually, including a couple that fit easily in my tank bag or panniers. But I'm probably not an "average" Norton owner, being female. :D

Back to the original topic, I'm sure I could save some money if I ordered carbs directly from England as compared to what I would have paid before Brexit. But the dealers in this country that I usually buy from all have stock on hand, purchased at the old exchange rates, so I don't expect their prices will be going down anytime soon, if ever.

Back to lurking...
 
Formalizing Brexit is a couple of years away yet. What you're seeing is typical exchange rate variation. My wife and I are ex-pat Brits (we emiigrated in 1968). I retired early from Boeing at 57 in 1998. Since we both worked in the UK for over 10 years befoe we emigrated, we get a proportional UK pension. Although the amount in £ stays the same for extended periods, the $ amount we get varies every month, up to 7 or 8 percent sometimes.
 
debby said:
I do have a purse, several actually, including a couple that fit easily in my tank bag or panniers. But I'm probably not an "average" Norton owner, being female. :D
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A "purse" here in the UK is a coin/money purse and probably not what you might think of as a purse which in the UK would be known as a ladies' bag or 'handbag'. :) :wink:

Typical men's coin purse that J M L was referring to (rarely seen these days).
THE COST OF BREXIT
 
When I got my 1958 Vespa 150, those "Corker" style helmets were the only ones on the UK market. They were actually line with cork as part of the shock-absorbing function. "Bone domes" appeared about a year later, but they , like the Corker had no built-in features like a face shield and didn't go below the chin-line. I dumped the Corker when I went from the Vespa to a car after a year with the Vespa. Back on bikes another year along, I got a bone dome and only got rid of it when I left Norton in 1968.
 
Note the coin purse is made from leather? Probably soon to be forbidden in today's world!
 
My father, the son of an English immigrant, always kept change in a coin purse. I'm 69..
Coins? What are coins nowadays but worthless bits of cheap metal. I leave them as part of a tip.
I don't want them. At least the Brits have a reasonable coin in the 2 pounder worth $2.60 US.
On the other hand, my son who is a bartender, brought me two US quarter dollar coins from the 1950's
that he received face value in partial payment for beer. They are 90% silver! Close to $4 each.
 
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