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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Brad Dowdy:''' But at least in the ballpark. Yeah. To where you can say, here's why. You know? Where before, if the pin was $600 on the European market and $800 in the US market and you couldn't go, here's why. You know, you're going to lose that sale in the US market most likely. So, this is good to see, I think. And Dr. Deans at <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Penn </del>Economics followed up with his own post from an economic standpoint. And he has several very good points. And this is my favorite one. And this is one I say all the time, which is the, they know better than we do aspect. Right? So, he says it in this manner. He says, my preference is always to start my analysis with the assumption that people have all the relevant information and that they make rational, sensible decisions. If a decision doesn't make sense, this assumption forces me to think hard about what the decision maker knows, but I don't. That assumption helps me to see things I otherwise miss and it prevents me from passing off easy answers as though they're true. So, yeah. Like, they know more than we do. Right? Right? We can sit here and come up with all the reasons why. And, yeah, we might hit on those reasons, but we really don't know for sure unless we work for the company. Yeah. But, I appreciate the fact that they see a change and are acting on it. So, that's my main takeaway from this is not necessarily the price, but, hey, get with the times. My customers can shop anywhere in the world that they choose to. Let's just make them buy. We don't care where they necessarily buy it from. Let's just make them buy a Pelican. Right? And I think that's the decision they made. And, of course, it benefits us as a consumer in the end. And hopefully, it benefits them by greater sales. Right? They don't need the additional margin to make those sales, make that money up. You know, more sales will, you know, hopefully boost up everything. So, I like where this is headed.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Brad Dowdy:''' But at least in the ballpark. Yeah. To where you can say, here's why. You know? Where before, if the pin was $600 on the European market and $800 in the US market and you couldn't go, here's why. You know, you're going to lose that sale in the US market most likely. So, this is good to see, I think. And Dr. Deans at <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Pen </ins>Economics followed up with his own post from an economic standpoint. And he has several very good points. And this is my favorite one. And this is one I say all the time, which is the, they know better than we do aspect. Right? So, he says it in this manner. He says, my preference is always to start my analysis with the assumption that people have all the relevant information and that they make rational, sensible decisions. If a decision doesn't make sense, this assumption forces me to think hard about what the decision maker knows, but I don't. That assumption helps me to see things I otherwise miss and it prevents me from passing off easy answers as though they're true. So, yeah. Like, they know more than we do. Right? Right? We can sit here and come up with all the reasons why. And, yeah, we might hit on those reasons, but we really don't know for sure unless we work for the company. Yeah. But, I appreciate the fact that they see a change and are acting on it. So, that's my main takeaway from this is not necessarily the price, but, hey, get with the times. My customers can shop anywhere in the world that they choose to. Let's just make them buy. We don't care where they necessarily buy it from. Let's just make them buy a Pelican. Right? And I think that's the decision they made. And, of course, it benefits us as a consumer in the end. And hopefully, it benefits them by greater sales. Right? They don't need the additional margin to make those sales, make that money up. You know, more sales will, you know, hopefully boost up everything. So, I like where this is headed.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, for sure. Like, it's good to see, like, sensible business like this. Right? Like, this is a good thing to see. You want to see that they're understanding the market that they're working in. They understand the world that they're in today. Right? Like, you can find out the price in other places. You can order from other countries. Right? And, you know, it makes sense to maybe try and level that out a bit, especially when it did so well for Aurora. Right? They got a lot of good press, probably quite a lot of sales from it. I think this makes a lot of sense. Pelicans are great pens. And it's just so great. And I've always wanted more, but I've always found the price to be funny. Because, you know, I tend to buy pens of this price at pen shows, typically. And the price has always turned me off a little bit, considering how close they are to a tier which is much higher. You know, like, once you start getting into the expensive Pelicans, well, there are many, many more handmade, custom, beautiful things made out of Urushi that I can get my hands on here. Right? When we're starting to get into this price range. So, I'm really happy to see them make this shift to try and bring things in line a little bit more. And they did it in the right way as well. Right? They brought the US down rather than bringing the rest of the world up.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, for sure. Like, it's good to see, like, sensible business like this. Right? Like, this is a good thing to see. You want to see that they're understanding the market that they're working in. They understand the world that they're in today. Right? Like, you can find out the price in other places. You can order from other countries. Right? And, you know, it makes sense to maybe try and level that out a bit, especially when it did so well for Aurora. Right? They got a lot of good press, probably quite a lot of sales from it. I think this makes a lot of sense. Pelicans are great pens. And it's just so great. And I've always wanted more, but I've always found the price to be funny. Because, you know, I tend to buy pens of this price at pen shows, typically. And the price has always turned me off a little bit, considering how close they are to a tier which is much higher. You know, like, once you start getting into the expensive Pelicans, well, there are many, many more handmade, custom, beautiful things made out of Urushi that I can get my hands on here. Right? When we're starting to get into this price range. So, I'm really happy to see them make this shift to try and bring things in line a little bit more. And they did it in the right way as well. Right? They brought the US down rather than bringing the rest of the world up.</div></td></tr>
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