Klarinet Archive - Posting 000367.txt from 2002/05

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] To Green Line or Not Green Line?
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 22:24:59 -0400

At 01:02 PM 5/14/2002 +0200, Joseph Wakeling wrote:
> > The Greenline material is probably MORE
> > EXPENSIVE than wood, but they would
> > have a TERRIBLE time MARKETING it
> > at a higher price, mostly due to attitudes
> > like the salesman's.
>
>I remember reading something like that in the archives, but I had the
>impression the extra cost was more because they had to retool the workshop,
>and so it was a once-off cost rather than a cost inherent in the material.
>But it would not surprise me if the green line material was more expensive
>regardless.

Whether the cost is of the material or the extra problems of working it,
the material is still viewed as essentially a product of recycling. I have
no problem with that, but I'm not environmentalist enough to pay a PREMIUM
for used goods. Same price or less, I'm interested.

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.net
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Essexville, MI 48732 ICQ UIN 4862265

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