@flightsim
Im going to expand on the prices a bit more here because i dont think i have made my point well enough.
Let's do some math and compare retail prices. First lets look at the Align retail price (it should be mentioned that Align will NOT allow you to sell below the retail price on their website or your supply will be cut off). So lets look at:
http://www.align.com.tw/shop/product_info.php?cPath=22_25&products_id=825
Since we as importers pay in USD all calculations will be in USD and then i will convert to EURO.
Retail price is 193.20USD.
Let's add shipping which is about 180 USD per carton of 12 kits. = 15 USD per kit
Now lets add 10% import tax = 19.32 USD per kit
Now lets add 19% BTW (which all shops have to charge and which was conveniently left out of flightsims calculations) = 36.70 USD
Total = 264.22 USD
Now lets convert that to Euro = 209.29 Euro per kit
And thats just the cost to get the kit to holland and put it in a shop for sale the shop is still making nothing on this kit at all yet.
Granted the dealer is going to get a discount and not be buying it for retail prices but as you can see there is little room in here when you start adding everything up and you have to remember that unless you can afford to order 200-300 kits from ALIGN at a time you are NOT going to get the kind of discount that Flightsim was talking about.
Flightsim, If you can bring these kits into holland and sell them for 140 Euro per kit, I will buy 50 kits from you. Good luck!
I have removed prices on my site until i actually have the new kits in stock because we are still trying to find a cheaper shipping method to get them inside of holland. 199 Euro inclusief BTW is my expected selling price but since that is not set in stone yet, Im removing it until it is 100% decided.
I will also mention that 3 of the 4 shops im aware of in holland who are selling the TREX are supplied by us so im very interested to know how they are going to sell the kit for less than they buy it from me. MFIS are also the only known supplier for the new ARK X-400 heli kits inside of holland at the present time. (Note that MFIS has the cheapest price on TREX kits in holland and we also have the newest kits from Align on V2/V3 models).
Anyway, sorry for such a long post but I just think it's quite rude for someone to come on this or any forum and start speculating the cost of something they have never even done themselves and to start implying or throwing accusations that someone is trying to cheat people out of their hard earned money. Onzin!
JD