Klarinet Archive - Posting 000737.txt from 2000/03

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] "Price of Used Buffetts Drops by ??%" Re: [kl] A
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 06:54:15 -0500

At 10:42 PM 3/23/2000 -0600, mark weinstein wrote:
>Bill Hausmann said:
>
>"One of the things the limited dealer network does is help small dealers
>STAY in business, by protecting them from competition by other nearby
>dealers. You have to be able to sell the instruments at a profit or you
>can't stay in business. Period."
>=========================
>NOT. Strongly Disagree. This is exactly what the manufacturer's espose daily
>and would have us all believe. It doesn't bother me a bit, but please don't
>ask me to buy in that fluff. Be advised its not benign, its cancerous !
>
The manufacturers would just as soon everybody and their brother was
selling them. But one problem with this is that there would not be enough
instruments to go around. Buffet et al. can make only so many. Instead of
100 dealers with 10 clarinets each for you to try and choose from, you'd
have 1000 dealers with ONE each! Having fewer dealers is to their
advantage for many reasons, and price fixing is probably the least of them.

>The "limited dealer network" only serves to limit the small dealer ... BUT,
>the catalogue stores can sell to your customers everyday and special shows
>can still "come" to your area and sell !
>
As you point out, you cannot price with complete impunity. Competition
still exists, and this type hurts small dealers badly. Take the lid off by
abandoning the limited dealer network and the small dealers are history.

I don't know about you, but I work for a small music retailer and I see
this stuff every day.

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

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

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