CidahMastah
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Hi All,
I wanted to start this thread because I think at a minimum I want to make you all consider other options for buying grain. NCM has arbitrarily increased grain pricing by over 20% to all those in the home brewing community. They have made good money from us based on our buying power and now they have decided to give us the slight of hand. When a business makes this sort of a decision I think we all as buyers should consider whether we should continue buying from them. The intent, I am sure, is to increase the price and lower the volume. However they will retain a typical sales revenue that is much the same as before, yet we will all get significantly less product.
I am not here to start a revolution, or coordinate anything. I just want to make you all think about how you can vote with your wallet and send NCM a message.
Please consider finding other suppliers, circumventing the rules in any legal way that you can.
Please use this thread to post your thoughts on the recent occurrence and perhaps we will come up with a better resolution for all of this.
For those of you who have found local breweries to support your buy - kudos in bypassing the price change to NCM.
Best to all,
CLICK HERE for the BUYING POLICY INFORMATION:
Old pricing details:
To see the catalog, go to:http://www.countrymaltgroup.com/download.asp?f=f6
The password is "CMGCHAMP".
Other Malt Suppliers List:
1. Valley Malt http://www.valleymalt.com/ (Massachusetts)
2. Brewers Supply Group bought Crosby & Baker (homebrew shop supplier)
http://www.brewerssupplygroup.com/home.html
http://bsghandcraft.com/index.php/home/
3. http://www.gwkent.com/brewery/ingredients.html?cat=166
Coop start up info:
http://www.ncba.coop/
http://www.sba.gov/content/cooperative
I wanted to start this thread because I think at a minimum I want to make you all consider other options for buying grain. NCM has arbitrarily increased grain pricing by over 20% to all those in the home brewing community. They have made good money from us based on our buying power and now they have decided to give us the slight of hand. When a business makes this sort of a decision I think we all as buyers should consider whether we should continue buying from them. The intent, I am sure, is to increase the price and lower the volume. However they will retain a typical sales revenue that is much the same as before, yet we will all get significantly less product.
I am not here to start a revolution, or coordinate anything. I just want to make you all think about how you can vote with your wallet and send NCM a message.
Please consider finding other suppliers, circumventing the rules in any legal way that you can.
Please use this thread to post your thoughts on the recent occurrence and perhaps we will come up with a better resolution for all of this.
For those of you who have found local breweries to support your buy - kudos in bypassing the price change to NCM.
Best to all,
CLICK HERE for the BUYING POLICY INFORMATION:
Old pricing details:
To see the catalog, go to:http://www.countrymaltgroup.com/download.asp?f=f6
The password is "CMGCHAMP".
Other Malt Suppliers List:
1. Valley Malt http://www.valleymalt.com/ (Massachusetts)
2. Brewers Supply Group bought Crosby & Baker (homebrew shop supplier)
http://www.brewerssupplygroup.com/home.html
http://bsghandcraft.com/index.php/home/
3. http://www.gwkent.com/brewery/ingredients.html?cat=166
Coop start up info:
http://www.ncba.coop/
http://www.sba.gov/content/cooperative