Right on Mr. Macdonald.
As to the online dealers ... When I can get anything 20% cheaper and pay
$7.50 shipping rather than drive 15 miles round trip through traffic ...
Guess what I'll choose? ... I paid 10.00US for a Mac battery at Radio
Shack. Then learned a source from this list & bought 10 at $1.50US @.
Another Example: I just bought some Van Hausen shirts (6) for $12.99@.
After looking at the very same identical items at a local Upscale Dept.
store priced at $27.95 each.
As to the local dealers and prices. People buy on price, Period. That is
one of the problems of being in business. In the retail M/C business, we
were the source of information & product knowledge for many folks that
had bought from a price cutter (PrCtr). But, THEY PAID DEARLY ... when
they brought it in for our trained, experienced, adult Mechanics to sort
out & repair the mess said PrCtr's 17 yr. old shade tree, "Hammer and
Pliers", 8th grade dropout had caused.
One solution was to create doubt. "You can buy a new CB77 for how much?
I don't understand that. He pays the same thing for them I do. Is it a
demo? Has it been in a wreck? Oh, I know. I'll bet it's one of those
bikes that were underwater in that flooded warehouse in Canada. I had a
chance to buy some of them; but we passed on it. Just not fair to the
customer." Create doubt. It works most of the time.
That's what they're trying to do about the $29/39.00 Dimms. Create
doubt. I've two PowrCntrPros with 8 of the 29.95 128mb Dimms installed.
They've been running perfectly for over a month now with absolutely no
problems what-so-ever from installation to operation. I couldn't say
that about the $350. plus, Drum copier or the first Omega Zip Drive;
both of which were pure landfill.
Grouchy Ole RHB
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"Michael S. Macdonald" wrote:
> err...what's wrong with this picture?...hmmm...I think it's the part about
> the local
> Mac guy buying a bunch for resale....Velocity has sold out on their $29.99
> 'special offer' and is now up to $39.99 for the same components.
>
> You'ld think by now that local dealers would be keeping a hawk eye out for
> ram prices...they seem to go up and down faster than the stock market in an
> election year..
> so they could offer their customer base reasonably competitive prices.
>
> I had an email exchange this week with someone in Toronto whose local Mac
> dealer was selling 64 mb 168pin dimms for the 7500's etc. for just over
> (US)$200 each!
>
> I'd be pretty pissed if I'd just paid over US$400 for 128mb ram and found
> out that it's
> readily available elsewhere for US$40
>
> I don't expect local dealers to compete equally with online suppliers, they
> do have
> different overhead to deal with, but if they charge 10 times the going
> amounts, the online
> dealers will be the only source in short order....
>
> Cheers...Michael
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