Oct 2007
Rhodium prices
Fri Oct 26 2007 Filed in: Bead News
Every week or two someone asks us when Miyuki's
rhodium plated beads will again be available.
Here's the story:
Over the past six or seven years, the market price for rhodium has climbed from around $500 per oz to its current level of over $6,000 per oz.
To put it another way, if the price of gas had gone up by the same amount, we would now be paying $20-25 per gallon or more. Ouch!
As the price steadily increased, Miyuki finally reached a point where they could no longer imagine customers buying rhodium-plated beads, and they stopped producing them. They are working on a substitute but so far have not come up with anything satisfactory.
The affected beads are:
In Delicas: 32 & 32cut, 332, 502 & 502 cut, 509, 510, 511, 512, 513. This applies to all sizes of Delicas.
In other beads: color numbers 192 & 200. (From our stock this only applies to SB-192)
DB 38 is a reasonable substitute for DB 32. There are no alternates for 509 - 513.
Over the past six or seven years, the market price for rhodium has climbed from around $500 per oz to its current level of over $6,000 per oz.
To put it another way, if the price of gas had gone up by the same amount, we would now be paying $20-25 per gallon or more. Ouch!
As the price steadily increased, Miyuki finally reached a point where they could no longer imagine customers buying rhodium-plated beads, and they stopped producing them. They are working on a substitute but so far have not come up with anything satisfactory.
The affected beads are:
In Delicas: 32 & 32cut, 332, 502 & 502 cut, 509, 510, 511, 512, 513. This applies to all sizes of Delicas.
In other beads: color numbers 192 & 200. (From our stock this only applies to SB-192)
DB 38 is a reasonable substitute for DB 32. There are no alternates for 509 - 513.
Contest news in Swedish
Thu Oct 25 2007 Filed in: Bead News
Our Miyuki air shipment arrived about an hour ago
and we've started unpacking it. It includes a first
installment of the Miyuki Fan Club kits (dog,
panda, etc.) as well as a slew of out-of-stock
Delicas. Hope to have the inventory updated in a
few hours.
For our beading friends in Sweden, news and information about our Mmm...Miyuki! contest is now available in Swedish at the Zionesse website. Tack so mycket!
We also just received the invoice for our next Miyuki sea shipment which is due in at the end of November. It includes new colors of 11/0s and 8/0s. I'll send out a mailing with details in the next week or so. Good thing we added all that warehouse space!
Forgot to mention that we just received a large shipment from Swarovski. Cart is updated. Pricing is also updated. The bad news is that the prices have gone up due to the steadily weakening dollar vs. the euro. The good news is that Swarovski recently capped the currency surcharge on their beads at 20% through the end of the year. If they hadn't put the cap on, the surcharge would be close to 30% and the prices would have gone up even more. If you had any beads on the Wait List, the new pricing will apply.
Speaking of the contest, our full-page ad for the contest is on page 67 of the new issue of Beadwork Magazine. We had inquiries about it from customers in our own retail store. I'll be curious to see what is created!
For our beading friends in Sweden, news and information about our Mmm...Miyuki! contest is now available in Swedish at the Zionesse website. Tack so mycket!
We also just received the invoice for our next Miyuki sea shipment which is due in at the end of November. It includes new colors of 11/0s and 8/0s. I'll send out a mailing with details in the next week or so. Good thing we added all that warehouse space!
Forgot to mention that we just received a large shipment from Swarovski. Cart is updated. Pricing is also updated. The bad news is that the prices have gone up due to the steadily weakening dollar vs. the euro. The good news is that Swarovski recently capped the currency surcharge on their beads at 20% through the end of the year. If they hadn't put the cap on, the surcharge would be close to 30% and the prices would have gone up even more. If you had any beads on the Wait List, the new pricing will apply.
Speaking of the contest, our full-page ad for the contest is on page 67 of the new issue of Beadwork Magazine. We had inquiries about it from customers in our own retail store. I'll be curious to see what is created!
A contest!
Wed Oct 10 2007 Filed in: Bead News
It's been a while since we sponsored a contest so
I'm happy to announce the first in a series of
contests we are
sponsoring with Miyuki.
Our next sea shipment is due into Boston any day now, so will hopefully be delivered in the near future.
Our next sea shipment is due into Boston any day now, so will hopefully be delivered in the near future.
New mix, new tubes
Mon Oct 08 2007 Filed in: Bead News
We have a new limited edition multi-mix for the
holidays named Candy Cane:
It's available on the cart. Supplies are limited.
We'll also soon be expanding our tube selection for our bead store and wholesale customers to include many sizes of flip tops, square tubes, etc. We'll be adding them to the cart as stock arrives over the next few weeks. Here's a sampling:
Our next sea shipment from Miyuki is due in at the end of this week.
It's available on the cart. Supplies are limited.
We'll also soon be expanding our tube selection for our bead store and wholesale customers to include many sizes of flip tops, square tubes, etc. We'll be adding them to the cart as stock arrives over the next few weeks. Here's a sampling:
Our next sea shipment from Miyuki is due in at the end of this week.