Don't worry about Van's price increases
This thread is a bunch of entropy. A lot of energy expended and no net work. [Professor Zagrodzky's Corollary to the Second Law of Thermodynamics]
Anyone who has dealt with Van's Aircraft through the years knows that their customer satisfaction is among the highest in the industry.
If you can't trust them to deal honestly with you, then who can you trust? Not to say that there aren't complaints occasionally, but compared to other businesses in the homebuilt industry, Van's is right up there at the top in providing value to homebuilders at a fair profit.
PLUS...READ the web page...
"...(Note that these price changes are for Standard and QuickBuild airframe kits
only. (Prices for engines, propellers, firewall forward kits, etc. are adjusted on a
different schedule.)..."
Yes, there will probably be price changes, but they will be in line with Van's history, i.e.,
FAIR.
As the song says, "Don't worry, Be happy!"
Build on!
Don
P.S. My wife and I own a small family business. In addition to the cost of goods sold, we have to pay labor, taxes, property taxes, insurance, rent, utilities, phone bill (don't get me started on how Ma Bell rips a small business for a single phone line!), advertising, printing, web page, and a host of other things that all add up. I think the cost of sheet aluminum is a smaller piece of Van's total operating budget than some people think. Yes the cost of aluminum affects Van's prices, but that's not the whole story.