With the recent decline of the Australian dollar, we’ve received news from our partners at BigAnt that a price rise is imminent and most likely to come into effect from 1 November.
As you’re all no doubt aware, the Australian dollar has been in decline since around April of this year. The following graph gives a good indication of this:
This graph shows the decline of the AUD over the past 90 days - Thanks Uncle Sam
The cost of importing the Livescribe product range has subsequently increased quite dramatically. We’ve worked really hard with BigAnt to get as much stock into the country as possible. However, from 1 November, prices will increase. Check back on the Smartpen website for updated price details.
We still have stocks available of the 2GB pens, A4 notebook packs, ink refills, and A5 journals.
[...] is likely to generate some nice demand for us (and the evil empire) though given we’re in the twilight zone of current stock vs. fresh supply at the higher purchase price we’ve got a tough job to manage tomorrow. Bear with us if you find us out of [...]
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[...] is likely to generate some nice demand for us (and the evil empire) though given we’re in the twilight zone of current stock vs. fresh supply at the higher purchase price we’ve got a tough job to manage tomorrow. Bear with us if you find us out of [...]
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