Klarinet Archive - Posting 000550.txt from 1999/07

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] consumers vs. sellers
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 17:25:41 -0400

At 11:37 AM 7/17/1999 -0400, gtgallant wrote:
>All this talk of the pros and cons of catalog and
>store buying boils down to a simple matter. Most
>people will and cannot afford to spend $200 to $400
>more dollars on an instrument, whether from a store or
>catalog. It's too bad that the local business cannot
>compete with the bigshots, but that's capitalism for
>you!

No, that is OVERHEAD for you. It costs money to buy/rent that store, pay
the staff, electricity phone, etc. We have THREE such stores and three
road people servicing schools, and even with the volume that generates, we
cannot get the best discounts from the manufacturers except on a few lines.
As I have said before, WW & BW sells Farkas french horns for less that we
can buy them direct from the company! The only thing we can offer that
they can't is personal service right in your own backyard. If that is not
worth anything to you, fine. But when the market consolidates down to just
a few superstores in the major cities (NOT the one you live in, of course),
don't complain about the lack of local availablility of products and
services. We don't make any more per transaction than the big boys do; it
just cost us more to do it.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
451 Old Orchard Drive http://www.concentric.net/~bhausman
Essexville, MI 48732 http://members.wbs.net/homepages/z/o/o/zoot14.html
ICQ UIN 4862265

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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