P3D Re: Kodak Stereo Slide Mounting (As of 7/29)(no subject)

[Linda Nygren <lnygren@xxxxxxx>]

wasatch@xxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> All these high prices quoted here on the list and in the latest issure
> of Dalia's magazine have me confused. We use the local drug/chain store
> in Nevada called Target drugstore. Last week I got a letter from the
> local Cualex plant (from inside a package of processed slides picked up
> at Target). The representative wrote under a Cualex leterhead in answer
> to my inquiry saying that my specific local Target sends all film marked
> for "Kodak Premium Processing to them (Cualex) and then if it is
> Kodachrome they (Cualex) forward it to Kodak somewhere for "Kodak
> Premium Processing". Anyway it takes about a month to get a stereo slide
> order back from whenever we drop them off at Target.
> 
> Doing it that way, the total charge for developing and mounting
> Kodachrome is $6.79 for a 36 exposure roll, (28 realist format stereo
> pairs). Last year it was $5.69. That is  the grand total price, not an
> "extra" price, we don't buy mailers but instead just use the free paper
> ones found at the photo desk iniside the store. This year we've had many
> rolls Kodachrome developed/mounted at this price and have used Target as
> a drop off point for years, since way back somewhere when that Target
> store had a different name. Perhaps we have been saving almost $10 per
> roll for identical processing at the same plant for all those years?
> 
> Bill King
The big price increase is recent, but a smaller surcharge ($4.20) has
been in place for a long time. It is true that in the past, sometimes
the surcharge has *not* been charged, specifically by Targets in some
parts of the country, perhaps when other retailers are used as well.
Here in the Twin Cities MN, the film goes from Target to a local Qualex
lab which will *not* forward it to Kodak (even though they are
affiliated labs) because they choose not to offer this service. Perhaps
it would work with Kodachrome, though, if they routinely send the
Kodachrome on to Kodak. Hmmm. I have tried it a few times with E-6 film
with no luck. Some Targets in other parts of the country apparently will
send it on for stereo mounting without charging extra. If you can still
get this deal going forward, good for you. -Linda


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