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B&H puts another local camera store out of business (with my help, unfortunately)
"Rita Ä Berkowitz" ritaberk2O04 @aol.com wrote in message ... L.C. wrote: And as someone who lives in rural Saskatchewan, I want to tell everyone that it the cheapest price is not always the best deal for you. Location is totally irrelevant! If no one supports local businesses, there will be none. Have people been able to calculate the cost of losing local businesses? Is it possible to do that calculation? There are actual financial costs, but what is the cost of slowly declining quality of life in smaller centers? What are the consequences of everyone travelling vast distances for every service and product they need? Again, totally irrelevant! Here's a clue. Any business independent of their location is fully capable of selling and competing on global scale. There's no reason for any business to fail other than their own laziness, lack of creativity, and a desire to blame others for self inflicted failure. Cheap goods can cost a lot. Cheap should never be confused with competitively priced. The only people who think location is irrelevant are those who live in good locations. Global competition works for only the very large, or the very, very specialized. Supporting local business is in your own interest. L.C. |
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B&H puts another local camera store out of business (with my help, unfortunately)
"Rita Ä Berkowitz" ritaberk2O04 @aol.com wrote in message ... L.C. wrote: Global competition works for only the very large, or the very, very specialized. Not true. There's a niche for everyone just as long as they know how to exploit it. To some degree this is true but... The advantage over the bigger guy with the bigger budget and advertising spend has more options to capitalise on the niche. They also have a bigger stock to lure the prospective purchaser into p/x'ing their gear for something else and can also use this as a leverage to get the lowest purchase price to offer a good s/h price and or a bigger margin. These days all lines are blurred and the local dealer is as far as your computer. It's about volume and multi income streams now whereas it was possible just to have a shop and extend it with mail order. the internet is that mail order now but with global rather than regional or national reach. Duncan |
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B&H puts another local camera store out of business (with myhelp, unfortunately)
Michael wrote:
Not every one gets stellar service from UPS and.Bob said he was declaring upon re-entry into Canada. Point is that FedEx charge a flat fee (about $5 - $10) for customs clearance regardless of the value of the item. UPS charge a value proportionate fee, which is hogwash (the amount of work is the same). The workaround with UPS is to go to the UPS entry point and pick up the item and do the paperwork yourself. OTOH, the point of courier service is to have --- service. UPS are total asswipes. I've had more grief shipping UPS than I care to recount. I've never had a problem with FedEx. FedEx is what UPS dream about achieving in service. -- -- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch. |
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B&H puts another local camera store out of business (with my help, unfortunately)
Recently, Alan Browne posted:
FedEx is what UPS dream about achieving in service. FedEx has wredked 3 of my expensive electronic items, and it was a real hassle to get them to pay up. As a result, about the only thing I'll send via FedEx is paper, and then only if it can't be damaged by wrinkling. OTOH, I've never had a problem with hardware shipped via UPS. YMMV. Neil |
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B&H puts another local camera store out of business (with my help, unfortunately)
One thing that I've noticed is a huge difference between traditional
FedEx and FedEx Ground. The latter was previously a separate company, which was bought out - and is still run like one. I shipped a turntable FedEx Ground at the buyers request; it arrived with the box somewhat battered, and with the turntable visually OK - but inoperable. What followed was months of lies and deceit: "The recipient refused to let us inspect it." "The recipient is a repair service, it was already broken." "You waited to long to file." "You didn't purchase insurance." "It wasn't in the original box." NONE of which were true; in the end, they stopped making excuses and just flat out refused to pay. And invited me to sue them. Fortunately, I sent it through a pack-and-ship, and THEIR insurance made good on it. That was my second FedEx Ground shipment, and my second problem. Nevermore. By comparison, I've never had trouble with regular FedEx, and though UPS is slow and balky, they've always straightened things out eventually. |
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