First time I heard of price drop 20% in China, I was not informed of that , thanks for letting me know. What is the name of your factory by the way? Must be a big factory since u said top factory, maybe we know each other. Are you working in the factory because your occupation put "Student"?
Ya, I checked with my sourcing team, they knew you ( I am from marketing team). But they also checked with the factory, price not down as you mentioned, maybe since you are from big factory, can get better price for feathers etc, our OEM factory relative small, doesn't have the advantage of mass purchase.
We are the brand owner of RCL. According to factory, it is something like raw feather price went down, but not the processed feathers. Some big factories, they can process the raw feathers themselves, so their cost lower. Smaller factories need to buy processed feathers, so cost the same. This is the explanation given by them. Malaysia is a very competitive and free market, it is the market which decides the price. If we can, we don't mind to mark down the price to get more market share. If we don't, but others do, we will lose market share. So it is not a matter of we want or don't want.
I think will be down the the end user . if some brand did not down, they will die soon.market will give them right info.
Thanks for the info. I will share this info with my sourcing team and see what they can do. We need to maintain the quality and consistency of RCL shuttles, we can't simply change to other factories without in-depth research. We have been working with current factory for a long time already, so far so good in terms of shuttle quality, relationship. But anything is possible, as long as we can find factory with equivalent or better quality and more competitive price, but this is all up to my sourcing team.
We know that relationship! maybe next time you source market group need consider with us! You can contact with me! Never mind ! Keep in touch! Marketing is best teacher! If you need consider some OEM order in our factory , your quality will be more better! OEM price more cheaper!
UPDATE: ------------ Please confirm the approximate current market price: 1) RCL Black Gold = goose feathers (RM80-85) 2) RCL Black Silver = goose (RM75-80) 3) RCL Black No. 1 = goose (???) 4) RCL Gold No 1 = duck (???) 1) Is that correct ? 2) What is the current price in the market ? I heard prices went up recently again I read that there are now RCL Eliteword series ... walau ... where do they fit into this "personal ranking"
We don't fix the market price, but the price range you gave were correct. Black No.1 (goose) should be about RM70-RM75 Gold No.1 (duck) should be about RM65-RM70 Price went up again? No..this is not true at all. Eliteworld is just a series we specifically created to sell online mostly. So if you can get the series above, you don't have to worry about Eliteworld.