| Originally posted by PF: JP1998, It's not price fixing. You should more carefully consider the implications and meanings of your words. You may prefer to purchase on the internet and not like the fact that Paradigm chooses to distribute via a dealer network (like B&W, like McDonalds, like Mercedes Benz, ad infinitum). But that's their business not yours. Trying to maintain price points and dealer territories to protect the hard-earned integrity and reputation of the product, and to further a well thought-out long range marketing strategy is not the same thing as price fixing. Nor is selling through distributors, or direct to consumers through mail and phone channels, though I assure you that businesses that choose these channels also have rigid pricing models. Please be sure to let us know when you start your speaker company what you choose as your method of distribution. Dollars to doughnuts, if it were your years of sweat and money on the line, you could think of lots of legitimate business reasons not to sell on the internet. |
