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Re: Quote for price of clarinets

Author: icecoke12
Date: 2003-05-13 17:28

Yah true...

I realise that the price difference in different countries are quite great. I compared certain instruments like R-13, Opus, Yamaha custom clarinets across countries like US, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and prices can differ up to US$1000 to $2000 for the higher range instruments.

I don;t know much about the markups of retailers, but I do wonder what is the reason for this difference.

I will be quite interested to know whether is it largely due to import taxes or the different pricing arrangements the manufacturers make with the retailers?

I guess it could also be just due to the retailer's personal costs like the cost of debt or service as mentioned... but in that case, it will only differ between retailers in a country, not as a general trend between different countries.

Anyway, I'm just wondering about it... (while in the process of trying to buy my clarinet...)

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