emilio
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- Joined
- Sep 21, 2010
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Dear friends
I think I should explain to you what our way of working is.
To this day Kronprinz toy soldiers is an army of two soldiers. These two people, my wife and I, took all necessary steps to create a miniature and put it on the way to your showcases. From the design and modeling of the original figure, to the packaging and shipping to its final destination, all the steps are done by the two of us.
This system, although primitive, allows us to make each figure specifically for who has asked us, and even introduce variations requested by the customer, without price variation.
It is true that in this way, the shipping times are much longer than those of the rest of our competitors, but also offer the advantages outlined above.
It also presents the inconvenience that time is limited, and therefore our production as well. At present, our income allows us to buy materials, cover production costs, and strict survival.
But this is going to change very soon. A team of more than ten people are already working on some of our references. The next week we will see the results, which I trust will be satisfactory. Our new box is already in the press, and the image of our products will be highly benefited.
From that moment, our delivery times gradually shortened significantly.
With the current system, we can not serve shops, nor can we attend trade shows, since all our time is dedicated to production.
These are other things that are going to change.
The only thing we intend to keep unchanged is the price and our dealings with the collector. I know that if we had decided to manufacture in China from the beginning, and to adjust the prices with those of those who do, everything would have been easier. But we committed to intervene in the production process, and to keep prices as close as possible to $ 30 per figure, although those $ 15-20 extras in our profits if we sold our figures to $ 45 or $ 50 would have made our progress a lot faster.
I only have to thank those who have trusted us, and that you have understood our failures for their faithfulness and patience, and I hope that you will continue with us in the future.
I think I should explain to you what our way of working is.
To this day Kronprinz toy soldiers is an army of two soldiers. These two people, my wife and I, took all necessary steps to create a miniature and put it on the way to your showcases. From the design and modeling of the original figure, to the packaging and shipping to its final destination, all the steps are done by the two of us.
This system, although primitive, allows us to make each figure specifically for who has asked us, and even introduce variations requested by the customer, without price variation.
It is true that in this way, the shipping times are much longer than those of the rest of our competitors, but also offer the advantages outlined above.
It also presents the inconvenience that time is limited, and therefore our production as well. At present, our income allows us to buy materials, cover production costs, and strict survival.
But this is going to change very soon. A team of more than ten people are already working on some of our references. The next week we will see the results, which I trust will be satisfactory. Our new box is already in the press, and the image of our products will be highly benefited.
From that moment, our delivery times gradually shortened significantly.
With the current system, we can not serve shops, nor can we attend trade shows, since all our time is dedicated to production.
These are other things that are going to change.
The only thing we intend to keep unchanged is the price and our dealings with the collector. I know that if we had decided to manufacture in China from the beginning, and to adjust the prices with those of those who do, everything would have been easier. But we committed to intervene in the production process, and to keep prices as close as possible to $ 30 per figure, although those $ 15-20 extras in our profits if we sold our figures to $ 45 or $ 50 would have made our progress a lot faster.
I only have to thank those who have trusted us, and that you have understood our failures for their faithfulness and patience, and I hope that you will continue with us in the future.
