They say, the wet latex prices will raise. The expected raising is 35-40% at the beginning of next year. Bad news...

It's been rising quite a lot over the past few years, like everything else really.

Qualatex is only rising the prices of the modelling balloons. So the twisters are the victims.. :roll:

Quote from: "Parcival"Qualatex is only rising the prices of the modelling balloons. So the twisters are the victims.. :roll:

Is that in Europe? In the UK it may be different.

It heard it from a supplier. Hopefully, it's a rumour.

My understanding although this may just be the UK is that latex rounds/prints are going up between 1.5/3% and some bubbles up between 12/18% and then in the UK we have a 2.5% VAT rise as well. So no increase in the modelling range.

In Hungary the prices of all types of balloons from all manufacturers will raise - as the biggest wholesaler's mail wrote.

Seems like a lot of rumour and not a lot of facts at the moment...however, is it seriously such a bad thing?

What % of your charges do balloons make up for most twisters and most gigs?  For me it's one of the smallest of all my gig costs, unless I am deliberately using lots of GEO's or printed rounds, which I only do ocassionally.

Balloon Decor requires a much larger investment in balloon costs compared to the twisters in NZ at least.

While it's always best to pay less, will it really affect twisters that much? :ugeek:

Good post Charles, for the professional entertainer as you say the balloon cost is only a very small part of your overall costs.
For the hobbyist/just for fun twister it probably is more of a problem/issue.

For me isn't problem. Just wrote the news from here.

That's the problem with balloons - Inflation!  :D

On the twisting front it is not really a problem as like Charles says for the amount of balloons you use on an average job it is not going to make a huge dent in the profit margins but on the décor side it will have a big impact.  My wholesalers will put their prices up and since VAT is added to the total they will not be swallowing the increase there either.  Since I am not VAT registered it is an issue for me because (now I have finally sorted my prices - kind of) I now have the decision to make as to whether to increase them to cover the cost of the products or whether to keep them as is and cut down what I make on each job!

As for the bubbles I will confess I have resisted using them as I feel they are already expensive compared to foils etc and if they are going up by that much it is highly unlikely I will incorporate them now.

Qualatex modelling balloons went up in price by 7% a few months back.. did you miss it?

Bubbles float for about a month at least, compared to standard 18/20" week, and foils have increased in price all year long, last year we paid on average for printed foils 90/95p - now some of the disney prints are up to £1.30 (sorry plus VAT, we are vat registerd so claim it back) whichis about the same price as the bubbles..

Have a play Yvonne you will love them!! honest and if you buy the 24" clear ones and double stuff init an 11" latex - that too will last over a month!!

Pam
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I like the bubbles, the look and feel are very nice. The grand-kids and I use them as beach balls and have a great time  

Good news come from the biggest Hungarian Q wholesaler. Finally the Q160 - Q646 prices remains the same as in last year, the prices of 5, 8 and 250 pieces/pack is a little bit cheaper from this year. The max. raising is below 10% where the price raise. As we say: there was the smoke bigger than the flame...