I loathe RS Components !

In the last RS catalog, they had a whole raft of new little transformers
(3.2,5,10,16,25,32 VA, in an assortment of useful voltages) at quite a
reasonable price (less than NZD10 for the little ones), so like a bloody
idiot, I designed them into a whole bunch of small volume things that I
make and sell (things like DMX splitters,crossovers,video projector remotes
etc etc). 2005 catalog comes out - across the board massive price increases
on these parts, even though the NZ dollar has been galloping ahead of the
country of origin (UK & Germany). These bandits seem to have a "ratchet"
mechanism on their prices as well - things that appeared in their catalog
when 1 NZD was USD0.40 have become **MORE** expensive when 1 NZD is now USD
0.72. Why are they so greedy ?.
M
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