01-Apr-2020, 12:58
I agree with PeppaPig on this. This group has an extremely high of integrity allowing to read all posts and ideas at face value. I struggle with the purported pricing which is a major contributing factor for the letter.
The other issue, if you accept the pricing are correct or near correct is the assumption that Devialet themselves are solely responsible for the lack of pricing discipline. Part of my background is international consumer goods. Our biggest headache was dealers selling to other dealers at discounts. It happens for a bunch of reasons, to get quantity discounts, to pay off lines of credit, taking advantage of currency markets, etc. Trying to plug that cross boarder selling was like to plug a leak in a dam with your figures, you can only do so much. Then you get dealers who have low overhead just trying to make a couple of bucks per unit sold. Perhaps this is one of the reason the Devialet and many other manufactures are changing the channels of distribution. We just don't know.
To be clear I am not saying that friffithstrife does not truly believe what he is saying, and since he has already moved on it really doesn't matter. But it doesn't fit with what I have seen in the marketplace and I will admit that it is limited.
The other issue, if you accept the pricing are correct or near correct is the assumption that Devialet themselves are solely responsible for the lack of pricing discipline. Part of my background is international consumer goods. Our biggest headache was dealers selling to other dealers at discounts. It happens for a bunch of reasons, to get quantity discounts, to pay off lines of credit, taking advantage of currency markets, etc. Trying to plug that cross boarder selling was like to plug a leak in a dam with your figures, you can only do so much. Then you get dealers who have low overhead just trying to make a couple of bucks per unit sold. Perhaps this is one of the reason the Devialet and many other manufactures are changing the channels of distribution. We just don't know.
To be clear I am not saying that friffithstrife does not truly believe what he is saying, and since he has already moved on it really doesn't matter. But it doesn't fit with what I have seen in the marketplace and I will admit that it is limited.
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