Following is the offer from LEE PRECISION, office of the president:
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If we want a 48% discount on our custom cut mold purchases (and everything else from LEE PRECISION) we can do the following:
Find ONE (1) civic minded member whose stay-at-home wife wants a part-time type stay-at-home job. This could be a retired couple or a young couple whose child raising needs has locked Mom away from working outside the home.
We would pay a bit extra for this person's time in collecting and processing our individual orders, but on the whole we would save a good bit of money as our $56 custom cut six bangers cost say $35-$36 now (delivered).
It would be nice if this person was centrally located in the USA to cut down on the required postage amounts, but this is not absolutely required.
HONCHOS -- PLEASE CONSIDER STOPPING ANY LEE CHECK FOR A MOLD ORDER THAT HASN'T ALREADY BEEN ACTUALLY SENT OUT TO LEE AND CONSIDER HOLDING THEM UNTIL THE FIRST OF NEXT YEAR. (our stuff in motion is considerable $$$ right now and could tally up to ringing this $6,000 bell fairly easily if held until after the first)
Amass all the money and route it all through our front person on Jan 1st, 2006. If we sent a single order for $6,000 (at the 48% discounted rate mind you) we as a CAST BOOLITS group qualify for a LEE Distributorship. We get our initial order and all following orders at a 48% discount. This order can be ANY LEE products, custom cut mold orders, pots, cast iron LEE presses -- anything LEE makes.
$6000 is 240 six banger molds or 310 pistol molds or some other combo of LEE items. We bought more custom cut molds than this quantity this past year, but not all at the same time. As individuals, we also bought a whole $$$ lot $$$ of LEE stuff over the year (die sets, pots, you name it).
Next year we could order it through our front person and get the discount, not only on these normal items but on our custom cut molds as well.
This is LEE's best offer ......
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Or, we could front all our custom mold purchases through an existing LEE Master Distributor at about the same price. Midsouth and Graf's come to mind as folks who have indicated interest in this sort of relationship the past. If we brushed this relationship off and refined it a bit they could be our front persons for all our custom cut molds as well.
Discussion time ......
who is the first one to say "this really isn't a very good offer from LEE"
(remember, LEE master distributors can sell it at 48% off all day long because they get an additional discount of 10-20 off the 48% normal distributor pricing and as big mail order boys they can make a good overall profit off this sort of thin margin)
But remember .......
To enter into rifles or other forms of DISCOUNTED group buying, we need a single centralized front person to do ordering for us, even our group custom cut mold orders.
Your thoughts?
Oldfeller
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Originally Posted by Oldfeller
