Edelman

As you know, MAAX is increasing their MAP sheet pricing and Job Quotes by 5%.

Two requirements must be met:

1.  Orders must be SUBMITTED to MAAX by Dec. 1, 2017 to receive current 2017 pricing

(if you normally send your PO’s to our office, you need to do so by 4:00 pm Dec. 1st so we can process.  After that time, please send directly to MAAX)

2.  All orders must also SHIP by Dec. 22, 2017 to receive this price.

*** All items not shipped by Dec. 22^nd will be billed at 2018 pricing ***

Please see attached ABG addendum for details…

2018 MAP Price Increase final addendum letter 11 1 17 (002)

Attached is the Gerber lead time sheet. It looks bad on the 21-832 concealed trap Avalanche bowl which is listed at 15 weeks. I had a meeting this week with Rob Larson from Gerber and he did assure me that it looks worse than it actually is. He said everything at the factory has been resolved and they have increased production on this sku. They expect the date to continue to decrease but have a number of back orders to fill and want to get a better handle on things before they lower the date anymore. They are filling all orders based on when they received them and not allowing anyone to jump ahead in line which I believe is the fair way to go.

I have some good news and some bad news regarding our ceramic tops. The good news is that we are down to just one size of ceramic top that we are continuing to having issues. The bad news is that we are still having issues with the 3cm 49” TC3-4922W1 & TC3-4922W8 tops. Thus far the tops that have been produced have not met our QC standards, and at this point the earliest we expect to see any inventory is late January / early February. Until product is “on the water” I am not promising any date to be back in stock.

In light of this updated information we are bringing in additional 11/16” 49” Ceramic tops (TC-4922W1/8) to hopefully address demand for the ceramic tops. We are also contacting customers that have orders currently in house and initially requested to wait for the 49” TC3 tops to ask if they would like to switch to the 11/16” top or continue to wait. We will also let customers know the status for any new orders received.

Please feel free to share this information with our dealers. Again the only tops that are at issue are the 3cm 49” Ceramic tops: TC3-4922W1 & TC3-4922W8.