why the price?

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- 27/02/2011 at 8:28 pm #45008
  TF_Rad
  just wondering why the such a big price difference in seat boxes. why are rive & colmic so more expensive than others? also i have an onbox 6 and am suffering with water getting in bottom compartment when its raining ? anyone else getting this problem or rectified this problem ~think
- 27/02/2011 at 9:11 pm #133829
  TF_Gavin
  Can’t say I have that problem with my original On-Box, but as a cheap fix-it you could put a strip of cheap sticky back draft excluder around the base to form a seal when it’s shut. A fiver will buy you enough to do your box many times.
- 27/02/2011 at 9:35 pm #133832
  TF_Mike_Globe
  The second bit of your question might be a reasonable answer to the 1st 🙂
- 27/02/2011 at 9:36 pm #133833
  TF_Mike_Globe
  @Rad wrote:
  
  just wondering why the such a big price difference in seat boxes. why are rive & colmic so more expensive than others? also i have an onbox 6 and am suffering with water getting in bottom compartment when its raining ? anyone else getting this problem or rectified this problem ~think
  
  The second bit of your question might be a reasonable answer to the 1st 🙂
- 27/02/2011 at 9:41 pm #133836
  TF_Anthonywaters
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  Because they are good quality thats why there not cheap
- 01/03/2011 at 10:42 pm #134000
  TF_Rad
  already put fresh seal around the box base m8 but still getting in somewere? the preston onbox 6 isnt cheap or at least i thought it wasnt. i heard that the onbox’s are made in asia for about Â£35 ? one thing i do know i wont be buying a preston box again.also tryed contacting prestons on the above problem and to see if i could buy some new seal that they use and never had a reply.~think
- 02/03/2011 at 12:37 pm #134019
  TF_wildinguk
  the rive and colmic boxes are made in, and shipped from, europe for the european market. They are priced up in euros then converted to Â£’s.
  
  The exchange rate is crap, hence they are sooooo expensive compared to a few years ago. The same goes for sensas. Shimano are so much as their stuff is mostly from japan, again awful exchange rate. Think that’s where preston, drennan and daiwa score so well. Even if the stuff is made in china (though some daiwa made in scotland), they are british companys so things are priced up in Â£’s in the first instance, not looked at in euros or yen and converted.
- 02/03/2011 at 1:31 pm #134027
  TF_Fred Davis
  Market forces dictate what ever punters will pay, some tarts will pay well above the odds for that must have item, considering bread punch boards are selling for Â£70+ rive’s are in comparison cheap
- 02/03/2011 at 4:14 pm #134041
  Average-Al
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  @Anthonywaters wrote:
  
  Because they are good quality thats why there not cheap
  
  These boxes are that good a lad on here does tidy business making replacement knobs.
  The drawers let in water, the wheel attachment breaks and the main frame on my mates snapped!!
  
  PM Shep2 if you want a run down on this “Quaility Box”~naughty ~naughty ~naughty
- 02/03/2011 at 5:27 pm #134051
  TF_Anthonywaters
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  Average Al i dont own a RIVE by the way I have a Milo ~think
- 02/03/2011 at 5:45 pm #134054
  TF_Fred Davis
  Quite right al although I gather someone also makes a stronger wheel kit for the rive, lets face it it’s a box which you park your ar$e on
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