Forrest Anderson
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This post is probably only of interest to members in the UK, as it's solely about the prices charged there.
Up to recently, Festool have published a price on their website and in their price list for each item. As is common for tools designed for trade use, these prices exclude VAT, which is currently 17.5% for tools.
Dealers usually take this official Festool price, deduct 20%, and advertise it at that, displaying the price with and/or without VAT as per their normal catalogue policy.
Let's take an example:
The Rotex RO150FEQ-Plus GB 240V (Order No 571592 ) is shown in the 2007 UK Price List as 376.00 GBP excl VAT.
Reducing the Festool Price by 20% gives us 300.80 GBP excl VAT, or 353.44 GBP incl VAT
We can now compare this to the price offered by some Festool dealers:
Axminster - 351.33 incl VAT
Rutlands - 349.95 incl VAT
So far, everything is as expected, but wait...
The Festool UK website is currently showing the same machine at 314.00 GBP excl VAT - not 376.00 GBP.
Two possibilities spring to mind:
- Festool has cut the prices of their kit, so that we now might expect to actually pay 314.00 - 20% = 251.20 GBP excl VAT or 295.16 incl VAT from a dealer, which would be a saving of about ?55.
or
- Festool has now changed their catalogue policy and is now showing the discounted price, ie the retail price. If so, that means that you would get the Rotex from a dealer for 314.00 GBP excl VAT, or ?368.95 GBP incl VAT. This would mean that the retail price has increased by about 10 GBP.
I strongly suspect that it's the latter scenario, as several Festool dealers on eBay are now charging 368 GBP:
ITS - 368.95 GBP incl VAT
Healy's - 368.95 GBP incl VAT
One dealer is even using both prices - selling it at 351.50 on their normal website, and 368.95 on eBay!
It therefore seems that Festool have recently put up their prices in the UK, and at the same time changed their catalogue price policy so that customers get the real price, rather than being confused by the 20% off arrangement.
Given how some dealers are using the old prices, and some are using the new ones, members in the UK might want to shop around before buying!
Forrest
Up to recently, Festool have published a price on their website and in their price list for each item. As is common for tools designed for trade use, these prices exclude VAT, which is currently 17.5% for tools.
Dealers usually take this official Festool price, deduct 20%, and advertise it at that, displaying the price with and/or without VAT as per their normal catalogue policy.
Let's take an example:
The Rotex RO150FEQ-Plus GB 240V (Order No 571592 ) is shown in the 2007 UK Price List as 376.00 GBP excl VAT.
Reducing the Festool Price by 20% gives us 300.80 GBP excl VAT, or 353.44 GBP incl VAT
We can now compare this to the price offered by some Festool dealers:
Axminster - 351.33 incl VAT
Rutlands - 349.95 incl VAT
So far, everything is as expected, but wait...
The Festool UK website is currently showing the same machine at 314.00 GBP excl VAT - not 376.00 GBP.
Two possibilities spring to mind:
- Festool has cut the prices of their kit, so that we now might expect to actually pay 314.00 - 20% = 251.20 GBP excl VAT or 295.16 incl VAT from a dealer, which would be a saving of about ?55.
or
- Festool has now changed their catalogue policy and is now showing the discounted price, ie the retail price. If so, that means that you would get the Rotex from a dealer for 314.00 GBP excl VAT, or ?368.95 GBP incl VAT. This would mean that the retail price has increased by about 10 GBP.
I strongly suspect that it's the latter scenario, as several Festool dealers on eBay are now charging 368 GBP:
ITS - 368.95 GBP incl VAT
Healy's - 368.95 GBP incl VAT
One dealer is even using both prices - selling it at 351.50 on their normal website, and 368.95 on eBay!
It therefore seems that Festool have recently put up their prices in the UK, and at the same time changed their catalogue price policy so that customers get the real price, rather than being confused by the 20% off arrangement.
Given how some dealers are using the old prices, and some are using the new ones, members in the UK might want to shop around before buying!
Forrest