On Saturday 29 October 2005 09:16, DarkroomMagic wrote: > How is Ilford etc going to survive if people stock up on their Âdead > favorites to last them for the next 10 years? Who are they going to sell to > over the next 10 years? Are we killing the companies who commit to the B&W > market by stocking up now? > > WouldnÂt we be better off to be more flexible, look forward and make sure > this business has a future? If you look at Ilfords suggestions for annual/semi-annual runs of ULF film. At similar ideas for 220 film. Plus who knows what in the future. I think we all have to learn things like stock rotation. How to keep things for long periods. How to figure out how much to order not for the next week but until the next uncertain future production run. Nick ============================================================================================================To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.