PhilNYC;171765 Wrote: > This will be my last post on the subject, because I think the original > point by wshield has been made and we're getting somewhat off-topic. > But I will mention that this whole selling-direct thing is still very > new to Bel Canto...they just started with the direct thing a couple of > months ago, and I'm sure they are still just in the process of getting > the kinks out. And it's entirely possible that they are headed in a > direction that will eventually cut out high-end dealers such as my > business, and instead pursue the likes of places like Best Buy, > Tweeter, and other higher-volume retail businesses that can handle > lower-margin products. In their defense, they've been very up-front > with dealers such as myself when they decided to go to the direct-sale > model, and as I've said before, I've not had any significant issues in > my manufacturer-dealer relationship with them.
Sorry, I was a major participant in the OT-ness :). Just in case I come across as being rabidly anti-dealer, I _have_ bought equipment from all three of my major local dealers over the last 10 years (equipment that only each had, not because I was playing them off against each other). -- totoro squeezebox 3 -> mccormack dna .5 -> audio physic tempo 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ totoro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5935 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31562 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
