You are right, absolutely, but there are different prices in Japan, if one buys the horn at the Japanese dealer. Reason: price has to pay for promotion, entertaining customers, import duty, compensating the up & down of the exchange rate, shipment, etc.
Like my horns: they cost 9.300 EURO instead of roughly 5.000 EURO list price. And the exclusive distributor/importer agreement makes it impossible even for me to sell a horn to an individual having residence in Japan. That are the rules. One has to understand, that manufacturers, who produce a limited low number of instruments, cannot afford to give some 30 - 40 % discount to the grossist (importer or gross distributor). If I would give this kind discount to a dealer, I would have to rise my list prices for roughly 2.000 EURO. Would this be fair to the single customer ? A piece of art, as the horn should be, is not comparable to any mass product, regarding discounts. The expected dealer discount of 30 - 40% is by no means comparable to the e.g. computer business, where grossists compete with margins between 2 & 4% only. My son is in that business & buys & sells monitors or PCs or components in the ten thousand quantities. Band instrument is another business than "real" concert instruments, also. ============================================================ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Canarutto Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 11:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Hornlist] Request At 12:00 -0500 2-10-2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >from: (Hans Pizka) > >As far as I remember, this person offered a horn (Rauch) which he bought >>in Japan at Japanese price, asking for a minimum of 9.000.-$ > >$9K! Rauch: rhymes with OUCH! As far as I know, new Rauch horns cost much less than that; but there is a long waiting list. Daniel Canarutto _______________________________________________ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/hans.pizka%40t-online.de _______________________________________________ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
