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KEEPING PRICES DOWN: At ScruffyDog we base prices on real margins relative to our material, manufacturing and ancillary costs rather than some arbitrary figure formulated on CPI, "the market" or what everyone else is doing .

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• Availability of particular styles and colours is not always reflected in our website gallery. This is because our website is not strictly a point-of-sale showcase, but rather, a window to our workshop. As the makers of shoes we need to show each style and colour from the time of its introduction right through to discontinuation.

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• It is also debatable as to whether we should maintain images of past styles in say an archive page just-in-case someone wants them again - especially since many of our styles do not have a use-by date.
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  Here are some of factors have bearing on current availability:

• - Introduction of new styles or colours.

• - Pilot or full production of new styles/colours.

• - Discontinuation of old styles or colours.

• - Confirmed advance orders (generally about six months minimum) that provide a firm indicator for our production numbers (i.e. we can make as many as you like so long as we know in advance).

• - Advance expressions of interest that give us a soft indication of how many more we should make in a particular production run.

• - Our own feelings, intuition and outright guesses of how popular a particular style/colour/size will be.

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• A NURSERY RHYME:

• One two buckle my shoe. Three, four, knock at the door.
  Five, six, pick up sticks.
  Seven, eight, lay them straight. Nine, ten, a big fat hen. Eleven, twelve, dig and delve. Thirteen, fourteen, maids a-courting. Fifteen, sixteen, maids in the kitchen. Seventeen, eighteen, maids in waiting. Nineteen, twenty, my plate's empty.

• YET MORE SPACE

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• ANOTHER NURSERY RHYME:

• There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. She had so many children, she didn't know what to do; She gave them some broth without any bread;

• Then whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.

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• AND STILL MORE SPACE

• ANOTHER NURSERY RHYME ABOUT SHOES?