We’re looking to buy a Makino U6 Heat wire EDM. We got a quote just under $200k (13% off) delivered - when researching recent used sales I am seeing used prices for this machine at $115 to $136k and a dealer in England is offering new ones for 109 British pounds or about $145k in today’s dollars. Can anyone share their pricing experience of this machine? Many thx.
I've had price combinations for,
U3,
U3 with B axis,
U6i,
$200K for (13% off ) for a U6 with the H.E.A.T option seems pretty good.
There are many factors but also worth checking the machine options with a fine toothed comb too to check for parity.
+ different territorial / dealer factors
+ whatever else maybe on the table for a larger purchase of a different constellation of machines with the same MTB and vendor.
BUT ,
check historical exchange rates between US and the UK , and UK vs. Japan, and US vs. Japan throughout the past year.
Your vendor in the UK is most likely buying in GBP (Sterling) not US dollars.
A vendor / MTB /
US based sales network is ordering machines paying in $ to a Japanese firm.
The Japanese machines are priced in Japanese Yen.
So price differences may happen also between machines ordered from the UK vs machines ordered from the USA due to historical and current exchange rates. + different times that various quotes might have been generated.
^^^ Click to see bigger - UK GBP (sterling) versus US $ for past year.
^^^ Click to see bigger - UK GBP (sterling) versus Japanese Yen.
^^^ Click to see bigger - US $ versus Japanese Yen exchange rates.
Pay close attention to the actual numeric values of each respective exchange rate. taking into account how each graph has been scaled differently on the Y axis.
Seems the strength of the GBP (sterling) vs. Japanese Yen is a significant factor versus a more constant exchange rate for US dollar vs Japanese Yen.
Seems the Japanese Yen is gaining in a little strength these past couple of months relative to the $ and the GBP - after a seemingly protracted period of "weakness".
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First determine how those curves intersect and how old and new quotes etc. might affect that as a beginning base line of comparison.
I don't think necessarily you will get leverage over your local dealer network with different prices in different regions [for a multiplicity of reasons.]. .
For sh*ts and Grins / Brexiteers - check out Euro vs Dollar exchange rates and Euro Versus Japanese Yen exchange rates while keeping one eye on GBP vs Japanese Yen.
But overall the Japanese yen seems to be getting slightly stronger but could falter a smidge the next quarter but the overall trend could still be in the direction of a stronger Japanese Yen.
~ I'm not saying "Buy now" 'cuz Japanese machines will be more expensive in the next few months and coming year. The US vs Japanese Yen exchange rates seem more constant to each other.
GBP seems to be going through a period of greater strength, good for buying Japanese products but bad for UK exports to Japan and the USA.