Diary of a Demented Store Owner

Thursday 11 October 2012

Help!?


We got this note from Spectrum last week explaining something or other about their clear glass for fusing, but for the life of me, we can't figure it out! 
So rather than trying to be clever, or accidentally misinform, we thought to just reprint it here verbatim and hopefully someone out there will be able to make some sense of it (apparently, even Mikey's Enigma Machine couldn't decode it).
Here goes:

Dear Retailer,
One of our biggest challenges over the past few years has been to find solutions that keep the prices of our products down in the face of continually rising costs of raw materials. Such is now the case with our core System 96® Clear product, 100SFS. In light of the fact that we must increase the price of 100SFS Clear, we developed a new Clear fusible formula -- "Icicle Clear" (100SF-ICE) -- that we are pleased to be able to offer at an even lower price point than you've been paying for 100SFS.
Named for it's slightly bluish hue, Icicle Clear fusible is made using the same exacting standards as all System 96 products -- the same devit-resistance and tested compatibility that fusers trust world-wide. We expect the ever-so slight blue hue of the new Icicle Clear fusible to be a non-issue for the majority of fusers using Clear as a project base, or clear cap.
Those who prefer the classic 100SFS glass will be impacted by the price increase (note new price code shift below). For those customers who require completely neutral Clear glass for their work, we will continue to offer our premium Crystal Clear (100SFXTL) products, without any change in price.
Icicle Clear will now be our regularly stocked, primary Clear fusible glass, and as such is likely to pick up where 100SFS left off as our new lowest priced, standard Clear SF product. The good news is that 3mm Icicle Clear will actually cost about 5% less than you are currently paying for 3mm 100SFS!

As noted in the chart above, all Irid Clear will now be made using the new Icicle Clear fusible formula. Irid Clear in the traditional SFS formula will be available as a special order item only (minimums will apply).

2 comments:

Daniel said...

they found a cheaper way to make sys 96 glass that has a slight blue hue. what part don't you understand?

Anonymous said...

Yeah Mikey...seems clear to me..perhaps its because I wasn't using the same machine