Comment · Tue, February 2, 2021 · ND Owner
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_agua_viva · 21 points
Anyone else hate it when you are two cents short of free shipping but don't wanna buy a whole other product >.<
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Aldarund · 1 points
Does ever price for raw for anything drop significantly ? :)
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
I wish! LOL. Sometimes there are price drops, when a production process is improved. Usually that happens before we release a product, though. NMN was insanely priced for years. We could not make the pricing work, so we just didn't offer it. Then they made a more efficient synthesis of it, and it made it possible for us to offer it. However, those are exceptions to the rule. Inflation tends to make the price go only one direction over time. This is across the board. Raw materials are one thing, but also packaging, freight, labor, electricity, taxes, etc. Every single one of those costs goes up every year for us. Not once have any of those costs gone down. We get the same story from the plastics company or the electric company. "Sorry, our costs increased. We have to pass some of them on." We can improve efficiency, but we are at the mercy of the other costs. The US dollar is worth less and less every year because of how much money has been injected into the economy over time.