Klarinet Archive - Posting 000402.txt from 1999/07

From: "clarinet" <clarinet@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Buffet E 11
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 21:03:23 -0400

Ian Black wrote:

>New price here (in case you're monitoring fluctuations) is approx £600 (GB
>Pounds). Living in the states seems strangely tempting if the price
>differential is carried over onto the whole range.....

I can't speak for today's prices in the UK, but when I worked in England
from 1979 - 1981, it cost about two US dollars to buy one British pound,
which, in turn, would buy about the same as one US dollar would back home
in the "colonies". My interpretation of this was that the system in
England was a sellers' market, whereas it was a buyers' market in the
States. Sellers stuck together and maintained high profit margins and made
little effort to attract customers by having adequate stock or convenient
hours of business, for example. The general explanation for this was that,
"no one likes to work unsocial hours". While undoubtedly true, this system
seemed to have far greater advantage for the businessman than for the
consumer.

Don Yungkurth (clarinet@-----.net)

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