I have been dealing with two Kenwood dealers. One charged me list price for my 1st Kenwood and one who gives a nice discount to Ham and GMRS people. Guess who I bought my next 5 Kenwood repeaters from. The local GA dealer gave me all kinds of crap about buying out of state. But he does not even do his own repairs. The out of state folks have a wonderful state of the art shop and service what they sell. So I get a discount and great service. Plus they are great on the phone with free help before and after the sale. I just love my Kenwood repeaters on GMRS and 927 MHz they just work and work and work! Good luck! 73, Russ Ham, W3CH GMRS, WPYK-254
----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 6:47 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Kenwood Repeaters > Jim, I thought I'd drop you a line. > > I respect your thoughts on protecting the dealers, > although most dealers tend to gouge the [EMAIL PROTECTED] out of > the ham radio market as we only buy one or two > repeaters at a time. > > Granted, this is the way things work in the real > world. Dealers are looking for big sales like a P.D. > to make any money, most buyers would request a price > break after xxx units bought:) Not here where I live:) > These morons pay list price for 500 units of M gear > xts5000 stuff...off subject someone is in bed with > someone:) > > Here is my thoughts on the subject, if I have a dealer > that wants say $1500.00 for a repeater and another > dealer offers me the same gear for $1100.00, I would > buy from the guy not charging me list price! > > Since Kenwood gear is of such high quality I would be > very surprised if it failed and had to be returned for > warranty repair unless it was a lemon or got blown up > by the ham radio owner. Either way, the unit would be > send to a "Authorized" service center, not some dealer > with a magic screw driver and an ohm meter to figure > out what blew up. > > I'm luck I have a deal that will sell me any product > of Kenwood for dealer cost plus 5% and S & H here so I > have no problems with my commercial & ham stuff... > > After speaking with my dealer I was informed that all > warranty repair items send to him were to be sent to > an "Authorized" service center not him for repair and > he would be reimbursed for his shipping cost. > Therefore I can only assume the dealer your referring > to that gets burned for repair in a moron... > > I suggest your moron friends of Kenwood get in touch > with Kenwood to follow up on return policies as it > appears to be in the dark. > > Regards, Barry > > > > > --- " wrote: > > > Richard W. Solomon wrote: > > > > > Sounds like "Restraint of Trade" to me. > > > Where are the Lawyers when you need them !! > > > > > > Dick, W1KSZ > > > > > > > ummm-no, it's called 'Anti-trust' policies. These > > dealers that come in > > from outside that are willing to sell equipment > > significantly under > > dealer cost just to get their foot in the door (with > > the final desired > > result of putting the locals out of business, which > > is where the > > anti-trust comes in) need a good swift smack in the > > head. > > Oh, and then when someone buys from them, and it > > breaks, they expect the > > local dealer, who they snubbed, to fix it. Free. > > > > -- > > Jim Barbour > > WD8CHL > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
