Cost of decals

Lately I’ve had several (Canadian) modelers ask why have my price gone up. Well there are a couple of reasons. I buy most of my materials in US dollars. A print run of 500 sheets used to cost me $200 US or $.40 per sheet the Canadian dollar was below the US dollar at that time. Prices have snuck up untill I was paying $400 or $.80 per sheet. Lately more people are buying RTR and not decalling so I have elected to print 250 sheets at a time and my last run was $350 which works out to $1.40 per sheet.

I had to raise my prices to cover these increases so a year and a half ago I raised a regular set price from $5 Canadian to $6 CDN. The Canadian dollar was at or above par. with the US dollar. At that time the CDN dollar was above the US $ and when asked why the Canadian dollar was so hy the government said it was because people were so confident in how they had managed our economy. Well since then the CDN $ has gone in the tank, but some people are still confident in their ability to manage. So last spring I kept the US price at $6 and raised the CDN price to $7. This summer I got a neat feature in the website that automatically converted CDN prices to USD prices at a push of the button. ( the currency selection is on the bottom left on the page- you can see what it costs in pounds or euros as well) and lookee lookee the US price is back down to $5.30. So, if the Canadian dollar goes down further expect the price to go up.