Online Canadian Supplement Stores

[kry]

Hello All, this is my first post here, i've been reading here for alittle while now and just recently signed up. Anyway, just wanted to let all you know that supplements canada and snd canada have jacked up their prices on several popular supplements, In case you don't already know there are serveral other canadian supplement site with prices that are much lower and reasonable. I don't mean to trash these companies, but I was upset to find their new prices much higher then everyone else as I WAS a long time customer.

[Krozone]

The products they import originate (more or less) from the US.
SuppCanada/Popeye's gave me the same sad explination last week when I went in and they told me the prices were going up in a few days...

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[theboss]

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[5151]

I was expecting this to happen. Interestingly enough I remember prices never budging when the dollar reached parity. Amazing how it only took a couple weeks of a low dollar for a reaction to occur but over a year of parity and nothing happened. I don't know whether this is the suppliers or the stores fault however they are running themselves out of business. I surely hope they don't come crying to the consumer when all our business starts to go to american e-tailers when after the exchange and retarded shipping prices it's still cheaper to buy from the states. Honestly some of the prices I see in Canadian e-tailers I could just make a large order from a big e-tailer in the states and sell at cheaper prices than you would see at any Canadian site and still make money.

[physique]

seeing as i sponsor this site ( dont apprectaite the fact u posted another website bossman, but whatever)
i can tell all of you, and i am sure sean summers can back this up. My costs from suppliers went up anywhere from 20-30&#37;.

So ask yourselves this? How do i justify eating all of that? to keep the price low for my customers.

So far i have not raised any of my prices due to me having a abundance of stock that i bought at the lower prices before the dollar took a plunge and i am a tiny store compared to popeyes and snd.
So ask yourself this. How can a tiny store keep prices the same, yet popeyes/snd cant? when they have enormous buying power and huge warehouses?

Its easy, they see this as a way for them to make more profit on products currently bought at lower prices. Where-as i will not do this!!! Only when i have to buy more stock at the new price will i raise the price, but it will only raise HALF of what the new price percentage to me is. so if my price is up 20%, i will raise by only 10% and eat the rest.
Why? because i am not stupid, people wont pay 20-30% more for a product, that the got a month earlier for less.

* sorry kinda of a rant at the same time in this post

[gustavo77]

seeing as i sponsor this site ( dont apprectaite the fact u posted another website bossman, but whatever)
i can tell all of you, and i am sure sean summers can back this up. My costs from suppliers went up anywhere from 20-30%.

So ask yourselves this? How do i justify eating all of that? to keep the price low for my customers.

So far i have not raised any of my prices due to me having a abundance of stock that i bought at the lower prices before the dollar took a plunge and i am a tiny store compared to popeyes and snd.
So ask yourself this. How can a tiny store keep prices the same, yet popeyes/snd cant? when they have enormous buying power and huge warehouses?

Its easy, they see this as a way for them to make more profit on products currently bought at lower prices. Where-as i will not do this!!! Only when i have to buy more stock at the new price will i raise the price, but it will only raise HALF of what the new price percentage to me is. so if my price is up 20%, i will raise by only 10% and eat the rest.
Why? because i am not stupid, people wont pay 20-30% more for a product, that the got a month earlier for less.

* sorry kinda of a rant at the same time in this post

Props to you bro...very stand up business practices. You will see more of my business in the future.

[Ritch]

I used to buy at snd before comming to this site but out of loyalty, stuck with them. But now they`re charging $120 for 10 lbs of optimum whey. Even with a 10% eventual increase as stated by physique his site is the best to buy off.

[5151]

seeing as i sponsor this site ( dont apprectaite the fact u posted another website bossman, but whatever)
i can tell all of you, and i am sure sean summers can back this up. My costs from suppliers went up anywhere from 20-30%.

So ask yourselves this? How do i justify eating all of that? to keep the price low for my customers.

So far i have not raised any of my prices due to me having a abundance of stock that i bought at the lower prices before the dollar took a plunge and i am a tiny store compared to popeyes and snd.
So ask yourself this. How can a tiny store keep prices the same, yet popeyes/snd cant? when they have enormous buying power and huge warehouses?

Its easy, they see this as a way for them to make more profit on products currently bought at lower prices. Where-as i will not do this!!! Only when i have to buy more stock at the new price will i raise the price, but it will only raise HALF of what the new price percentage to me is. so if my price is up 20%, i will raise by only 10% and eat the rest.
Why? because i am not stupid, people wont pay 20-30% more for a product, that the got a month earlier for less.

* sorry kinda of a rant at the same time in this post

May I ask when the dollar was strong how long was the lag before suppliers lowered their prices? Or was there any change?

[theboss]

sorry Physique..wasnt thinking.....i edited

[kloan]

Yeah, it sucks. Guys like physique are getting screwed by the suppliers who are using the dollar as an excuse to raise prices, even on stock they already have in their warehouses.

Meanwhile, we never saw the decrease in prices when we were at parity. They blamed that on the cost of gas. Well, the dollar's low again, but so is gas. So where exactly is the logic behind this?

Simply put, greed. The suppliers are greedy jerkoffs that see an opportunity to gauge their resellers and the consumer.

Nuthin we can do about it, afaik.