Pl Lazulite

Thu Jan 8 19:32:28 AKST 2004

According to Central, PL raised their pricing after last year's world champ in response to their good standings. 

I bought my Smaragd through Central last year. Unforfunately, they no longer import any more PL kits, hense the reason why I ordered from PL direct.

Adrian

-----Original Message-----
From: Troy Newman <troy_newman at msn.com>
Sent: Jan 8, 2004 8:09 PM
To: discussion at nsrca.org
Subject: Re: Pl Lazulite

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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Only the Pl kits direct are this much.</font></div>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Central is still bringing in the ZN kits and the 
prices are much much lower. I don't know the details but the latest batch should 
be here in a little while 3-5 weeks and the pricing is going to be in the normal 
$1000-1100 for the kits. This from what I understand is the kits with the CF 
former parts and all the tricked out stuff like the ZN gear and light wheel 
pants.</font></div>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have been a big advocate of these kits since the 
beginning and I still say they are the absolute best quality kit you can get. 
They are not as cheap as the ARFs but to me and anyone I know that has built one 
of the ZN's they are well worth the current going price. Having seen them 
all and now built most of them including the leading US manufacturers...the 
ZN kits still have the best kit available. </font></div>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have no idea why PL decided to raise their prices 
to the levels they did. Perhaps it was a backorder issue and instead of long 
lead times the manufacturer decided to raise the price to play. I can't really 
say why...I do know that ZN line is aware of the pricing issues and is working 
on the costs in order to make the kits even more competitive with the other 
manufacturers.</font></div>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Troy</font></div>
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  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </div>
  <DIV 
  style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</b> 
  <A title=Rcmaster199 at aol.com 
  href="mailto:Rcmaster199 at aol.com">Rcmaster199 at aol.com</a> </div>
  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</b> <A title=discussion at nsrca.org 
  href="mailto:discussion at nsrca.org">discussion at nsrca.org</a> </div>
  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 08, 2004 5:28 
  PM</div>
  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</b> Re: Pl Lazulite</div>
  <DIV><BR></div><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 
  FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">Jimbo that's terrible. I am sorry to hear that 
  story. Money doesn't grow on trees.<BR><BR>With that in mind, one has to 
  wonder why buy the Europeans when the American crop fly so well. <BR><BR>Did 
  anyone else see the latest post on RCU in the pattern column? It was by none 
  other than our reigning F3A National Champ re: the Focus 2. <BR><BR>And the 
  Focus2 is only one of several excellent domestic offerings (Temptation, Aries, 
  and Panacea come immediately to mind)  with their domestic price tag. I 
  don't get it. What's the catch? I bought one of these mega Euro planes two 
  years ago and it flies great but not greater than these American planes. 
  Sooooo, I ask again: WHAT'S THE CATCH?<BR><BR>Matt K<BR><BR>
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  style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" 
  TYPE="CITE">Subj:<B>RE: Pl Lazulite </b><BR>Date:1/8/2004 10:50:56 AM 
    Eastern Standard Time<BR>From:<A 
    href="mailto:James.Woodward2 at edwards.af.mil">James.Woodward2 at edwards.afmil</a><BR>Reply-to:<A 
    href="mailto:discussion at nsrca.org">discussion at nsrca.org</a><BR>To:<A 
    href="mailto:discussion at nsrca.org">discussion at nsrca.org</a><BR><I>Sent from 
    the Internet </i><BR><BR><BR><BR>I ordered a PL Lazulite around last 
    February.  It arrived 4 months later<BR>than originally stated.  
    The freight company charged another $90 in<BR>paperwork.  The total was 
    around $1800-$1900 for plane, shipping, and<BR>freight.  Shipping was 
    near $500.  The fuselage was damaged.  My attempts to<BR>get 
    another were futile.  After another gentleman went public on this 
    list,<BR>PL reversed their position and decided to send another fuselage to 
    me.  The<BR>people who bring the kits into the US do us a HUGE 
    favor.  I will never<BR>order direct again.<BR>Jim 
    W.<BR><BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: adriancwong at earthlink.net 
    [mailto:adriancwong at earthlink.net] <BR>Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 
    9:16 PM<BR>To: discussion at nsrca.org<BR>Subject: RE: Pl Lazulite<BR><BR>I 
    ordered a Partner directly from PL at the beginning of December, it 
    cost<BR>me 1,054.00 euro (shipping extra). PL debited 50% on my credit card 
    at 1.21<BR>exchange rate, and will debit the other 50% in April. If the 
    exchange rate<BR>keeps going up and up, I might pay it off before taking 
    delivery.<BR><BR>Import duty is relatively cheap. I paid around $40.00 for 
    all the paper work<BR>between the forwarder and the U S Custom when I took 
    delivery of my Angel's<BR>Shadow a year 
ago.<BR><BR>Adrian</blockquote><BR><BR></blockquote></font></font></body></html>

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