Price Changes
Hello to all of my customers and potential customers.
Unfortunately I am being forced by bad actors in the lightsaber community to raise my prices or the wont allow me to continue selling lightsabers. For the last few weeks the vendors in the lightsaber community have been hating on The Saber Workshop. They have been trying to get us shut down because of our prices. They have been talking badly about our customer service experience. They have been talking bad about the products we sell (even though they sell the same ones) and they have been removing any mention of us from Facebook Groups, Discord Servers, and we have been banned permanently from the r/lightsaber reddit.
I got into this business to offer an affordable place for you to be able to come and buy lightsabers. Now i am being forced by my wholesaler to raise my prices or they will stop supplying me with lightsabers to sell to my customers. This is not something my vendor is forcing me to do. Its something that the other vendors in the space have complained to them about time and time again and are forcing my vendor to have me change my prices.
For weeks now there have been private chats and emails going around from other shops who sell lightsabers trying to find ways to push me out of the market. They feel its unfair that I am ok with just making a few dollars per saber compared to the amounts they are making. (I am not permitted to tell you how much of a markup they are charging, or my vendors will stop supplying me with products.
I have always believed in 100% transparency with my customers. Even with my old shop where I sold presets for guitar amp modelers. I became very popular in that space for offering affordability and my customers foght back against the "established standards" and changed how things in the market were done. Of course this lead to me being unpopular among vendors and celebrated by customers.
I have promised my vendor that I will not raise my prices beyond what you can get the same products for on places like Amazon and AliExpress. I was told this was told I can "do this first, and if there are still people complaining I may have to raise them again. If this is going to be forced on me then I am going to stop carrying their particular products. Its very unfortunate because their products are great, and I really want to offer them to my customers. But if I am going to be forced to raise prices to what I feel are unfair levels to my customers. I will either find other ways to get their products and sell them, or stop carrying their products.
Its unfortunate that the established vendors have this kind of power over the market. Its totally unfair that I am being forced into this situation. Especially since I currently have advertisements running on Facebook and Instagram with the current prices. I am going to have to take down all my current advertisements and change them all because of this.
I am going to post this also to The Saber Workshop Facebook page where you can comment and leave your feedback on this situation. Change can only happen when everyone works together.
I apologize for this, but unfortunately I have no choice as I want to bring you the best products possible at an affordable price.
How much are the prices going up? This is a great question, unfortunately I think its going to be somewhere in the vicinity of between $20 and $50 per lightsaber. In some cases even more. I really apologize for this.
If you would like proof of this I can provide it but if I provide it I may still lose the ability to sell these products. My vendors hands are tied by their clients and I either comply or lose the ability to sell their products.
I am so sorry......
Jason
If you wish to leave a comment please click THIS LINK and leave a comment on my post on Facebook.
Unfortunately I am being forced by bad actors in the lightsaber community to raise my prices or the wont allow me to continue selling lightsabers. For the last few weeks the vendors in the lightsaber community have been hating on The Saber Workshop. They have been trying to get us shut down because of our prices. They have been talking badly about our customer service experience. They have been talking bad about the products we sell (even though they sell the same ones) and they have been removing any mention of us from Facebook Groups, Discord Servers, and we have been banned permanently from the r/lightsaber reddit.
I got into this business to offer an affordable place for you to be able to come and buy lightsabers. Now i am being forced by my wholesaler to raise my prices or they will stop supplying me with lightsabers to sell to my customers. This is not something my vendor is forcing me to do. Its something that the other vendors in the space have complained to them about time and time again and are forcing my vendor to have me change my prices.
For weeks now there have been private chats and emails going around from other shops who sell lightsabers trying to find ways to push me out of the market. They feel its unfair that I am ok with just making a few dollars per saber compared to the amounts they are making. (I am not permitted to tell you how much of a markup they are charging, or my vendors will stop supplying me with products.
I have always believed in 100% transparency with my customers. Even with my old shop where I sold presets for guitar amp modelers. I became very popular in that space for offering affordability and my customers foght back against the "established standards" and changed how things in the market were done. Of course this lead to me being unpopular among vendors and celebrated by customers.
I have promised my vendor that I will not raise my prices beyond what you can get the same products for on places like Amazon and AliExpress. I was told this was told I can "do this first, and if there are still people complaining I may have to raise them again. If this is going to be forced on me then I am going to stop carrying their particular products. Its very unfortunate because their products are great, and I really want to offer them to my customers. But if I am going to be forced to raise prices to what I feel are unfair levels to my customers. I will either find other ways to get their products and sell them, or stop carrying their products.
Its unfortunate that the established vendors have this kind of power over the market. Its totally unfair that I am being forced into this situation. Especially since I currently have advertisements running on Facebook and Instagram with the current prices. I am going to have to take down all my current advertisements and change them all because of this.
I am going to post this also to The Saber Workshop Facebook page where you can comment and leave your feedback on this situation. Change can only happen when everyone works together.
I apologize for this, but unfortunately I have no choice as I want to bring you the best products possible at an affordable price.
How much are the prices going up? This is a great question, unfortunately I think its going to be somewhere in the vicinity of between $20 and $50 per lightsaber. In some cases even more. I really apologize for this.
If you would like proof of this I can provide it but if I provide it I may still lose the ability to sell these products. My vendors hands are tied by their clients and I either comply or lose the ability to sell their products.
I am so sorry......
Jason
If you wish to leave a comment please click THIS LINK and leave a comment on my post on Facebook.