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Volvo Collection by Editions Atlas - small price increase

6/24/2015

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Editions Atlas has just published that they will implement a small price increase for every ongoing collection starting from this week. This concerns of course also the Volvo Collection. Editions Atlas gives the following reasons:
  • the prices per model stayed unchanged over the last decade but the fees have gone up steadily
  • a strong revaluation of th US-dollar against the Euro: all the products made in China are paid in US-dollars
  • the fees for transport and more specifically those for shipping parcels in Europe have largely increased this year
  • the salary costs in China as well as the prices for raw materials have increased over the last years between 10 and 20% each year
  • the fact that Editions Atlas has its headquarter in Switzerland does not help in terms of exchange rates: the Swiss franc is no longer coupled to the Euro

Each of their clients will receive a letter explaining the price increases. Editions Atlas will charge each customer an extra 2 to 3€ per model.

Editions Atlas indicates that this price increase doesn't fully cover the actual higher manufacturing costs. Editions Atlas has therefore made other efforts to cut their costs: logistics, accounting and a couple other services ave been centralized. This has resulted in a sharp drop of employees. Editions Atlas hopes to have taken the right decisions and being able to start with a smaller but healthier constellation.

All these changes may explain some of the logistic problems many customers may have experienced over the last couple months. Editions Atlas has outsourced their customer service which has certainly not helped customers who were wondering where their models are stuck.
2 Comments
S.Martin
7/21/2015 01:17:54 pm

Yeah, I just saw that the price has raised from 198 SEK to 238 SEK here in Sweden :( I hope that the cars are MUCH better in quality than it was before, some of my older cars looks like old toy-cars already as new! It's bad and I can't call to Edition Atlas every single time a bad car has arrived to me! At the star almost every car was bad and looks like they was done in a haste , not it's better but I hop they become even better now after the raised price!

Regards
Martin

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volworine
7/22/2015 03:32:30 pm

I am personally satisfied with the price / quality ratio, or maybe I have not received yet any Monday-models ;-)
But I'm not satisfied with the customer service.
Once again, nothing has happened from the moment I got the 240 ambulance and so far, I have received only 3 models this year. I read that the Editions Atlas intends to increase the Volvo model range from 60 to 75 models and this is good news! But... is Editions Atlas first priority to increase production or to keep customers happy? At this rate, I'm already in the grave, when the last model arrives.

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