When and Why did IfishPros double in price?

I still just use my $10 tip ups, Spend the $70 on beer. I’m so way ahead of you guys LOL.

Bearcat89 wrote:

Sure stinks that shipping right now is such a mangled mess

Let’s Go Brandon!

I saw Otter is having a shipping issue resulting in limited production.

I’m not shedding a tear for these outsourcing sell-out companies. Boycott and go buy American made.

70 bucks for a glorified rod holder because their arrangement with a communist sweat shop went sideways? Good luck with that.

SW Eyes wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Bearcat89 wrote:</div>
Sure stinks that shipping right now is such a mangled mess

Let’s Go Brandon!

I saw Otter is having a shipping issue resulting in limited production.

I’m not shedding a tear for these outsourcing sell-out companies. Boycott and go buy American made.

70 bucks for a glorified rod holder because their arrangement with a communist sweat shop went sideways? Good luck with that.

What American made product did you post this from? I see your point, and agree we all should do a better job at buying local across the board, but it’s just not possible for a huge number of things right now. And doubtful if it ever will be possible to buy all American made products for everything again.

Rodwork wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>James Holst wrote:</div>
Shipping on a container went from China went from under $10,000 to $35k+.

His hope is that if shipping costs ever go back down he’ll be able to lower his prices back to where they were.

This sucks. Sounds like we can expect everything from China to be jumping up and I have been seeing it. Munchy, it would make more sense to start making them here if we could get people here to work.

Companies didn’t outsource to China because of a labor shortage. I saw middle America gutted and left for dead for a slightly higher profit margin long before the “labor shortage” that popped up a year ago because of awful socialist programs.

Don’t turn this into an argument against the people of America. Like it’s somehow our fault. This most certainly ain’t that. At least, not where I’m from (maybe in your big city). Throw a dart and hit any town in rural Minnesota and you’ll have a line out the door applying for a job at the iFish Pro factory. Small town Minnesota is starved for good factory work.

It would’ve made sense if they didn’t allow short-term greed to cloud their judgement on the long-term viability of having means of production on the opposite side of the globe. You’ve got to be an idiot to think that’s sustainable (especially with leftists doing everything in their power to choke out fossil fuels for the last 20+ years – not arguing whether right or wrong).

Then there’s ethics. If the product is viable at a cost that can only be accomplished with slave labor at a Uyghur concentration camp – The product sucks. If you still choose to make your living that way – you’re evil (not you, specifically, the corporation). You’re effectively taking a job and sending it overseas, taking American dollars and sending them overseas, then giving people a shitty product, made God-knows how from God-knows what. They’re Scrooge on steroid, but all year long.

Let these companies go under. Don’t care whether they mean well and they’re good people when they’re not exploiting slave labor. They sold out their country and their soul. Screw em.

bigcrappie wrote:

I still just use my $10 tip ups, Spend the $70 on beer. I’m so way ahead of you guys LOL.

I do like tipups but catching pike on a rod and reel is really fun. I just use finicky foolers though. I still have no idea what an ifishpro does differently besides cost more, be heavier, and take up a lot more space.

bigcrappie wrote:

Spend the $70 on beer.

Funniest post so far. Nothing like literally pissing your money away

Randy Wieland wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>bigcrappie wrote:</div>
Spend the $70 on beer.

Funniest post so far. Nothing like literally pissing your money away

LOL! How true.

bigcrappie wrote:

I still just use my $10 tip ups, Spend the $70 on beer. I’m so way ahead of you guys LOL.

Im with you, my tipups work just fine, leaves more money for some Lattes…..

I’m with big crappie too. People sure make ice fishing complicated these days. I can see the rod way working and being fun on nice days but we just don’t get enough of those.

SoDak Fisher Guy wrote:

Yup, it’s everything….I sell PVC pipe, fittings, valves, etc for water & sewer applications, and pipe has gone up about 35-40%. Made in the USA, but they say getting the raw goods to make the stuff is tough to get.

Construction demand is at an all time high, people still paying the higher prices….no end in sight.

I make and sell Tip Downs, the frames are made from 1/2″ Schedule 40 PVC. Last year a 10′ piece was $1.99. This year it is $4.41, more than double the price. The cost of poles is higher, as well as all of the other parts, treble hooks, Line, Swivels, Eye screws, Snap Locks, Bolts, Wing nuts, sinkers, safety line. Add all of these up and I can see why things have gone up, I have only raised my price to cover the extra cost of shipping and PVC. But I switched to free shipping on 2 or more.

Remember everything that you touch has been on a truck at some point, with Sleepy Joe restricting oil drilling, fuel has raised the price of everything.

icenutz wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>SoDak Fisher Guy wrote:</div>
Yup, it’s everything….I sell PVC pipe, fittings, valves, etc for water & sewer applications, and pipe has gone up about 35-40%. Made in the USA, but they say getting the raw goods to make the stuff is tough to get.

Construction demand is at an all time high, people still paying the higher prices….no end in sight.

I make and sell Tip Downs, the frames are made from 1/2″ Schedule 40 PVC. Last year a 10′ piece was $1.99. This year it is $4.41, more than double the price. The cost of poles is higher, as well as all of the other parts, treble hooks, Line, Swivels, Eye screws, Snap Locks, Bolts, Wing nuts, sinkers, safety line. Add all of these up and I can see why things have gone up, I have only raised my price to cover the extra cost of shipping and PVC. But I switched to free shipping on 2 or more.

Remember everything that you touch has been on a truck at some point, with Sleepy Joe restricting oil drilling, fuel has raised the price of everything.

So much of what you utilize in your builds are petroleum based products also and as the price of gas goes up, so does products produced from petroleum.

It affects everything from manufacturing to the cost of delivery.

Let’s go, Brandon!