Uniti price hike

At all cost, old chap !

 Not happy at all to hear this.

let just hope naim don't send manufacturing east to increase profit  or the demand for the new range over whelms them.  orders for the new uniti must be massive. I wonder if there will be a platform with out the power section and dig in and outs

audio1946 posted:

let just hope naim don't send manufacturing east to increase profit

I can't see that happening. Move the manufacturing from the UK and that's a lot of the brand value gone.

Indeed, an Atom now costs £2k (£2150 with HDMI)  so anyone who wants one should probably get out there fast and see if there are any around at rhe old price. 

That would be more than 10%, as it was previously £1750. I find two price increases in a year difficult to justify on the movement of the pound, inflation etc etc

Does this increase also apply to the uniticore server? If so then how much is its list price now?

Gazza posted:

That would be more than 10%, as it was previously £1750. I find two price increases in a year difficult to justify on the movement of the pound, inflation etc etc

This is way too much, or they calculate the cost wrong or got greedy with the success in either Case “ it is not OK”

wonder what that will do to the US prices. Although - I don't think I need to buy anything for the next 15 years or so...

If the items are manufactured in Salisbury, then the labour costs are in sterling anyway, so exchange rate is irrelevant (unless employees have enjoyed an inflation busting pay increase, of course). What is affected by exchange rate is the cost of materials and components sourced overseas.

Furthermore, it is difficult to see why the price of the Uniti range should be increased and not the rest of the product line, not that I'm seeking to encourage that. It may be owing to cost recovery associated with the delays and technical issues. 

I imagine, and I may be totally off beam, that they’ve had a huge amount of capital sitting around (in the form of units built but unsaleable) for nearly a year, and then spent a year frantically trying to get the software right so they can shift those units. And I’d bet that the budget for those software efforts got blown a long long time ago.

Someone, somewhere up the food chain is probably insisting on grabbing some of that back.

I have ordered one and waiting for it to arrive. Can they change the price on my unit?

Gary Shaw posted:

I imagine, and I may be totally off beam, that they’ve had a huge amount of capital sitting around (in the form of units built but unsaleable) for nearly a year, and then spent a year frantically trying to get the software right so they can shift those units. And I’d bet that the budget for those software efforts got blown a long long time ago.

Someone, somewhere up the food chain is probably insisting on grabbing some of that back.

That's my take on it too. 

Oskar posted:

I have ordered one and waiting for it to arrive. Can they change the price on my unit?

They shouldn’t. If they try to, walk away. And if you’ve paid already and they ask more, tell them to sit on it and spin. 

I believe they made a strategic mistake. This increase has no other reason than to cash on the uniti success. However, an atom at £2k is a far far cry from the qute2 Price at roughly £1200

they are pricing themselves so high that they will loose customers to brands like Ace and Hegel to name a few 

I was lucky to get an atom at the initial price thanks to a fantastic dealer which kept his promise. I was lucky but still don’t applaud naim for this price hike. 

Spent today at a business review meeting.   Currency fluctuations are causing massive problems. 

All, in order to manage rumours and blind speculation

1. We are not moving production away from SALISBURY, uk 

2. Any orders already placed are being honoured, fair and square from our side.

Trevor

Yes well, if the idiotic Cameron hadn't lacked the balls to stand up to his rabid backbenchers, we wouldn't have Brexit and an economy that's all over the shop. There's three more years of this for business to endure. 

I've just heard, Jeremy Corbyn, has announced if you support labour, everyone can have one for free.....

Better a free Atom than an economy down the toilet. 

To be fair, Jeremy wants everyone to be in Uniti.....see what I did there....

wenger2015 posted:

I've just heard, Jeremy Corbyn, has announced if you support labour, everyone can have one for free.....can't afford Unitis, not as well as give everyone a pay rise, buy back public services, cancel student loans, nationalise Pfi schemes, pay for a seat on a virgin train and buy more magic money trees whilst saving the economy so that the unions can ruin it again, can he?

Comrade Corbin can't afford Unitis, not as well as give everyone a pay rise, buy back public services, cancel student loans, nationalise Pfi schemes, pay for a seat on a virgin train and buy more magic money trees whilst saving the economy so that the unions can ruin it again, can he?

So if I vote for the genie I get a free Uniti? 

That changes everything, count me in. 

So, a Nova goes from £4.1K to £4.5K? That's a deal breaker for me.