Klarinet Archive - Posting 000022.txt from 2006/08
From: Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu> Subj: Re: [kl] Buffet Pricefixing?? Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:12:14 -0400
At least we have some numbers to consider. Thanks, Lisa.
It reminds me of a situation in the 60s (and maybe today for all I
know) when Zeiss Optics had a similar arrangement with their dealers
of cameras and optical scientific instruments. There was a guy in
southern California, maybe a one-man operation as far as I know, who
went to Germany several times each year and bargained for the best
price among RETAIL suppliers of Zeiss optical instruments. He walked
into each store, was welcomed as a loyal customer and so
on. Conversations and negotiations followed and he came back with
all of his loot which he sold (I don't think he even operated a store
front) at deep discounts and still made enough to travel to Germany
several times each year. If you wanted the best deal around on a
Zeiss microscope, you bought it from him. 8-)
My father-in-law was a press photographer for the L.A. Times and also
a biological photographer hobbyist and he got to know this guy
through that interest.
Anyway, all that is by way of asking which of you can claim the
biggest discount from what Lisa has posted? It makes me want to go
back to Paris right now and begin to haunt the stores along the rue
de Rome. Some of you old-timers will remember that I commented
several years ago about how I felt intimidated by my last experience
-- that I felt after trying out several instruments it was almost
obligatory that I buy something. Moreover, the prices offered were
not significantly less than that which I would pay in the U.S. and
over here I'd think nothing of trying out a few, thanking the
storekeeper and walking out.
Having a number like $2567.00 is just what I need to give it a
try. Damn! I have to return to teach Quantitative Analysis this
fall. My trip will have to wait until next spring or summer. It
does pique one's curiosity, though, doesn't it?
Oliver
At 09:10 AM 8/1/2006, you wrote:
>Here are a few examples of what Buffet has set as the MSP for their products:
>R13 Bb nickel keys MSP is 2567.00
>R13 Bb silver keys MSP is 2901.00
>R13 A nickel keys MSP is 3131.00
>R13 A silver keys MSP is 3452.00
>
>Lisa Argiris Canning
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