sorry to answer you late as just back from a short trip.
concerning this order, my suggestion is as follows:
1. palisades
I talked to the processing site again concerning your quality standard, after serious discussion,
we agreed to use only G603 material without veins. Concerning the surface pineappled, we think
all processing sites produce palisades in the same way, it can not be so much difference except
not buying from G603 area. So my idea is that you send us some photos which show the surface
of pineappled in G603, then we can immediately decide if that is what we normally work with or
standard much higher (which means price must be much higher);
>> Attached some pictures of our actual G603 quality. It is definitely not as good as earlier days but better than the most Palisades I can find in our market at present. Please note that the color differences are caused through the rain. Some pieces are dry and some pieces are wet. If you can supply original G603 without veins, one color selection and the same surface treatment as a minimum quality standard, we can go ahead with our order. At your pictures of G603 Palisades I saw also some drilling marks. These are not accepted.
2. blocksteps
with the price of blocksteps, we can also reduce the price if you do not need win=win label, it means
we can buy from others in cheaper price, but with this factory, the price has to be as quoted;
>> If the price difference is not too high, we would support the Fair Stone factory. What is the price difference to the other factories which are not a member of Fair Stone? Please comment.
3. noble steles
with the prices of noble steles, I also checked with some other factories without win=win labels, they
alsmost quoted the same prices as the factory, so I really cant understand how your supplier can
give you much cheaper prices than normal. are the prices they gave to you update or several months
before?
>> Max. price we can pay for the Container with 8x25x100 cm is 10,50 USD/lm. If you can accept this price, we could go ahead with this order. Please let me know if this is workable for you.
Timo, it is your decision how we should proceed our present orders, from our point of view, definitely
we like to start with the material G603 both palisades and sawn products even we get some difficulties
at the beggining. Anyway all things are difficult before they are easy.
>> If we change to another supplier, we normally would like to get an advantage. With your Basalt Palisades for example we had to accept a higher prices but we could improve our quality standard. This was an advantage for us. I think that it is difficult to find the advantages in G603. We have to pay higher prices even if the quality can not be so much better than ours. Because the G603 business is very competitive, we can´t change our sells prices. What we have to pay more is what we have to reduce from our margin, which is already slim in G603.