Hello everyone,
Is just me or you are also seeing cable quotes from distributors that are made valid for silly short periods of time like one to two weeks? This time it's not blamed on price of Teflon but rather copper. It's kinda funny but prices on copper futures are actually DOWN right now for the whole of 2006: (
Does anyone have copper content figures for, say, generic CAT5E UTP cable? I don't think there is more than 30% content in an insulated cable like ours, so my guess is that rise of copper prices (if any) should actually be dampened by the fact that there isn't too much of it in this kind of cable.
So, how do you guys deal with this kind of volatility on one of your major price components? It's pretty dangerous to submit a quote and sit on it for months now, which is exactly what customers have become accustomed to during last couple years of stable pricing.
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