Klarinet Archive - Posting 000001.txt from 2006/12

From: clarni bass <clarnibass@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] WWBW Bankruptcy -- to set the record straight
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 02:04:23 -0500

I also had very good experience with WW&BW. I bought
three clarinets from them, one at the New York store
when it still existed (and it was a great store) and
two at their main store in Indiana.

Other than one time where they sent a different item
than I ordered, I always had great service from them.
When my barrel cracked, and it was after the warrenty
expired, they still agreed to send me a new barrel for
free. When I found problems with the instruments I
bought from them they agreed to pay me back the price
of the repairs (because of my location returning the
instrument for repairs was impossible). So I honestly
don't know what people are talking about when they say
the smaller stores have better service but higher
prices.

--- Kevin Fay <kevin.fay.home@-----.net> wrote:

> Rommel John Miller posted:
>
> <<<Something is more rotten here than meets the eye,
> for WWBW was too big,
> too massive, too much a presence like K-Mart or
> Walmart to suffer this
> defeat, some deeper, unknown and nefarious reason
> for its demise must be at
> the source of its fall.>>>
>
> Huh? Kmart filed for bankruptcy in 2002, leading to
> their merger with Sears
> in 2005. It had $17 billion in assets when it filed
> for Chapter 11
> protection. Was this the result of being
> "nefarious," or perhaps just some
> poor inventory management? It's very possible to be
> big and go broke.
>
> WWBW is hardly a big retailer, though. It had what
> - two stores? While
> they're big in the mail-order music business,
> perhaps, as retailers go they
> are tiny.
>
> A *single* Wal-Mart averages over $50 million in
> sales per year. (There are
> over 6,000 of them.)
>
> I bought a ton of stuff from WWBW over the years - a
> clarinet, two
> saxophones, a flugelhorn and a closet full of
> mouthpieces and other stuff.
> They could be slow at times, but I always found them
> helpful.
>
> kjf
>
>
>
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