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glass sales off 20% overall diddlywhoot 07-11-2006
Posted by JK@work on July 13, 2006, 11:35 am
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>
> >
> >
> > Facts, financial reports, or just a rumor? How can they possibly be
> > selling as much when Chinese ripoffs are .99 cents a foot? Gotta be
> > impacting them on SOME big level.
> >
> Speaking of Chinese.....
>
> A couple of weeks ago I stopped by Armstrong's warehouse. They were
balls
> to the wall getting huge orders picked and packed for several container
load
> export shipments to Finland or Norway or Germany or somewhere over there.
> He told me where they were going, I just don't remember exactly.
>


Good thing you weren't doing the shipping Moon!


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JK Sinrod
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Posted by Moonraker on July 13, 2006, 12:08 pm
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>
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Facts, financial reports, or just a rumor? How can they possibly be
> > > selling as much when Chinese ripoffs are .99 cents a foot? Gotta be
> > > impacting them on SOME big level.
> > >
> > Speaking of Chinese.....
> >
> > A couple of weeks ago I stopped by Armstrong's warehouse. They were
> balls
> > to the wall getting huge orders picked and packed for several container
> load
> > export shipments to Finland or Norway or Germany or somewhere over
there.
> > He told me where they were going, I just don't remember exactly.
> >
>
>
> Good thing you weren't doing the shipping Moon!
>
>
I got the impression it might be the "same" container load(s) that our
erstwhile Canadian "tycoon" was touting a while back. I mean, how many
sea-going containers of stained glass could the Scandanavian area absorb in
a few months?



Posted by Kalera on July 13, 2006, 1:47 pm
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glassman wrote:

> Facts, financial reports, or just a rumor? How can they possibly be
> selling as much when Chinese ripoffs are .99 cents a foot? Gotta be
> impacting them on SOME big level.

That's what they tell me when I go in to pick up glass. I could be
misinformed, but they keep expanding so I'm guessing not.
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-Kalera
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Posted by nJb on July 13, 2006, 9:37 pm
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Kalera wrote:
> glassman wrote:
>
>> Facts, financial reports, or just a rumor? How can they possibly be
>> selling as much when Chinese ripoffs are .99 cents a foot? Gotta be
>> impacting them on SOME big level.
>
>
> That's what they tell me when I go in to pick up glass. I could be
> misinformed, but they keep expanding so I'm guessing not.

The Chinese are not even impacting the fusing glass market.

Seattle Batch just went tits up. They were marketing Chinese blowing
glass. Seems they couldn't stay on spec.

--
Jack

        http://www.glasterpiece.com

Posted by Kalera on July 13, 2006, 10:49 pm
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nJb wrote:
> Kalera wrote:
>> glassman wrote:
>>
>>> Facts, financial reports, or just a rumor? How can they possibly be
>>> selling as much when Chinese ripoffs are .99 cents a foot? Gotta be
>>> impacting them on SOME big level.
>>
>>
>> That's what they tell me when I go in to pick up glass. I could be
>> misinformed, but they keep expanding so I'm guessing not.
>
> The Chinese are not even impacting the fusing glass market.
>
> Seattle Batch just went tits up. They were marketing Chinese blowing
> glass. Seems they couldn't stay on spec.
>

Sweet!

I'm not surprised. Someone was trying to import Chinese glass for
lampworking, it went balls-up after less than a year. Someone else is
trying right now, I expect the same outcome.

--
-Kalera
http://www.beadwife.com
http://www.bridgetownglass.com
On eBay: http://www.snurl.com/1sfe

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