Geesh you have a depressing world view... why on earth do you go on about imminent doom and despair when a vendor prices something high, then the same doom and despair when another vendor has it on sale?
In short, many don't understand promotions. Slim calls up Fry's and says, "hey you're selling our stuff now, how about getting us in a flier for PR!" Fry's says "fat chance, we don't do that for free, you have to give us some promo deal if you want into our flier..." Slim says, "um, okay, what about a rebate?" Fry's takes the deal and promises to promote the product. There may be a ton of other considerations: payments of cash, special buy-ins if they guarantee a certain sales volume, etc. All negotiable. This is how sales work. It doesn't mean CocaCola is going out of business when Safeway has 12packs as buy 2 get free. It means Coke made Safeway a special deal and Safeway may even cut their margin hoping the sale pulls customers from competitors. Or Safeway may just cheat and buy a months supply at the -end- of the promo period and go for a month without ordering any coke at the non-promo price. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41227 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
