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Crew,
We at Motostar Performance.com just wanted to make everyone aware that tire pricing across all product categories and brands will be extremely volatile in 2011. You can plan on several more price increases this year. We have already had 1-2 increases in 2011 depending on the brand. These price increases will occur for all businesses that sell tires across the industry.
The biggest culprit for these increases are the cost of raw materials. Check out this link, it shows you the rubber commodities price trend for natural rubber - http://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/?commodity=rubber
Pricing will not be trending downward anytime soon. A couple of the worlds largest producers of natural rubber are Indonesia and Thailand. Each time a brutal storm blows thru there and wipes out acres of land, it is destroying acres of natural rubber trees, which in turn drives pricing up. The rubber producers are doing their best to replace the trees that are destroyed, but unfortunately it takes a rubber tree 10 years to mature to the point where can produce the raw materials needed to build tires. Higher cost of materials = higher priced tires.
When Motostar receives an increase notice from the manufacturers we notify our customers and encourage them to purchase before the increase. We do not honor any quotes issued if an increase occurs, all tires are sold at the new price. We just wanted to make the forum aware of our policy regarding price increases and their implementation.
Call, PM, or email ejbova@motostartire.com with any questions.
Gene
Crew,We at Motostar Performance.com just wanted to make everyone aware that tire pricing across all product categories and brands will be extremely volatile in 2011. You can plan on several more price increases this year. We have already had 1-2 increases in 2011 depending on the brand. These price increases will occur for all businesses that sell tires across the industry.
The biggest culprit for these increases are the cost of raw materials. Check out this link, it shows you the rubber commodities price trend for natural rubber - http://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/?commodity=rubber
Pricing will not be trending downward anytime soon. A couple of the worlds largest producers of natural rubber are Indonesia and Thailand. Each time a brutal storm blows thru there and wipes out acres of land, it is destroying acres of natural rubber trees, which in turn drives pricing up. The rubber producers are doing their best to replace the trees that are destroyed, but unfortunately it takes a rubber tree 10 years to mature to the point where can produce the raw materials needed to build tires. Higher cost of materials = higher priced tires.
When Motostar receives an increase notice from the manufacturers we notify our customers and encourage them to purchase before the increase. We do not honor any quotes issued if an increase occurs, all tires are sold at the new price. We just wanted to make the
forum aware of our policy regarding price increases and their implementation. Call, PM, or email ejbova@motostartire.com with any questions.
Gene
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