Well, that was a slap in the face! I don't think that comparison with cars is reasonable: the cost of shipping a car means that buying outside your local market is not practical. For small consumer goods, on the other hand, it is completely practical to buy anywhere in the world and ship. Amazon is hardly a start-up and I can buy books online from Amazon in the US (or the UK), and get the local rates and pay shipping and they're hardly a start-up. Same applies to many other products. Even in the case of cars US or European retailers would happily sell me a car, I'd just have to pay all the costs of getting it here (including duties etc). I don't see why you can't have a bit of channel competition.
As far as Sonos is concerned, despite the price difference, from what I'm seeing, they are happily out-selling Squeezeboxes here (I've witnessed my local retailer, which stocks both Squeezeboxes and Sonos extolling the virtues of the Sonos to a customer without even mentioning the Squeezebox). I far prefer the Squeezebox, so I think this is a shame, but while you might think that the price increase is "the way business is done", I suspect it will not help you sell more product out here. -- smc2911 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ smc2911's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4388 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43128 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
