Amateur Radio Manufacturers and unfair pricing!

Here I sit the day after Dayton, calling around to all the dealers looking
for a HF Transceiver. There were some fantastic prices offered on equipment
(As much as $500 off list), and the dealers are back to charging full price
today.

I am told by the dealers I called, that the Manufacturers were making deals
with them so they could sell there inventories much cheaper, and the orders
had to be taken at Dayton. Today, the day after when most of these orders
had not even shipped yet, they are back up to full retail price.

To be fair, Manufacturers should allow these prices for a time period after
Dayton to give other Amateurs who could not drive to Dayton an opportunity
to get the same deals.

I think we should all write to them and let them know how we feel. This is
unfair !

laborkei wrote:
Amateur Radio Manufacturers and unfair pricing!

Here I sit the day after Dayton, calling around to all the dealers looking
for a HF Transceiver. There were some fantastic prices offered on equipment
(As much as $500 off list), and the dealers are back to charging full price
today.

I am told by the dealers I called, that the Manufacturers were making deals
with them so they could sell there inventories much cheaper, and the orders
had to be taken at Dayton. Today, the day after when most of these orders
had not even shipped yet, they are back up to full retail price.

To be fair, Manufacturers should allow these prices for a time period after
Dayton to give other Amateurs who could not drive to Dayton an opportunity
to get the same deals.

I think we should all write to them and let them know how we feel. This is
unfair !



Cry us a river. They made the offers at Dayton and that was what they as
private businesses chose to do. You could have either went to Dayton or
found whatever way to get a radio from there. Get over it.

"laborkei" writes:
I think we should all write to them and let them know how we feel. This is
unfair !

Why not just vote with your wallet?

On Mon, 22 May 2006 16:26:44 GMT, Billy Smith
wrote:
You could have either went to Dayton

Or even better, you could have gone to Dayton.

Here's a clue:
Life is not fair. Never was, never will be.
Deal with it.

73

Billy Smith wrote:
laborkei wrote:

Amateur Radio Manufacturers and unfair pricing!

Here I sit the day after Dayton, calling around to all the dealers
looking
for a HF Transceiver. There were some fantastic prices offered on
equipment
(As much as $500 off list), and the dealers are back to charging full
price
today.

I am told by the dealers I called, that the Manufacturers were making
deals
with them so they could sell there inventories much cheaper, and the
orders
had to be taken at Dayton. Today, the day after when most of these orders
had not even shipped yet, they are back up to full retail price.

To be fair, Manufacturers should allow these prices for a time period
after
Dayton to give other Amateurs who could not drive to Dayton an
opportunity
to get the same deals.

I think we should all write to them and let them know how we feel.
This is
unfair !



Cry us a river. They made the offers at Dayton and that was what they as
private businesses chose to do. You could have either went to Dayton or
found whatever way to get a radio from there. Get over it.

Maybe you can get some left wing liberal whiners to feel sorry for you, but not
likely. This is a free market, remember? Or would you prefer the government
telling businesses what they can charge.

UNBELIEVABLE that some people expect soemthing for nothing all the time.

Couldn't you have just bought during the actual convention? Even if you
couldn't physically be in Dayton, couldn't you have just done an order
over the phone or something? I'm sure they would've been happy to take
your business while, you know, the sales were actually going on.

Get a grip dude, that is the way sales work, it starts at a certain time and
ends at a certain. That time may not be on the schedule you like, oh well,
that is what being the guy setting up the sale is all about. Don't like it,
make your own product, market it, set up a sale and then let folks who want
the special price a day or two later have it, it will be your business and
you can run it any way you like.

Jeeze, I hate whiners!!!!