Nagasawa Kobe Ink Price Increase Coming 1/1/2016

[zchen]

Per Nagasawa Stationary's website announcement.

 

Price per bottle increasing from Yen 1500 to Yen 1800, effective 1/1/2016. Causes cited include rising cost of raw materials

Edited December 7, 2015 by zchen

[Algester]

holy (bleep)... I didnt see this coming but considering I once talked about the Kobe bottles at this price range... I guess I was sort of right

Edited December 7, 2015 by Algester

[haruka337]

Well fudge.

[AndyYNWA]

Hmmm.... $2.50, wonder how much Atsu will add on to that...?

[RedScarves]

[rafapa]

Can we assume Sailor inks will also be affected?

[Algester]

maybe... unless the dyes found in the expansive Kobe inks arent used in the current production Sailor inks... wait who am I kidding... Sailor produces a lot of inks

[jmccarty3]

Now would be a good time to go over Visvamitra's excellent reviews of these inks and to order from Atsu.

[visvamitra]

The problem is almost half of the colors are out of stock now :/ Once they'll appear, they'll have new price tag on them. I don't know what's the situation in USA but in Poland and some other european countries Sailor's inks price increased this year around 47 % in October (from 52-53 PLN) up to 78 - 79 PLN.

[Ghost Plane]

Well fudge.

+1

[white_lotus]

I wonder if the whole Sailor line will have a price increase? If the price increase is due to the cost of bottles, I don't see how the regular line could be unaffected.