"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 !

The local HRO store claimed to have "Dayton prices" last weekend. I
didn't buy a radio so I don't know how good the prices were.

They usually have prices below the "sticker" price.



Jack Hamilton


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Though in a state of society some must have greater
luxuries and comforts than others, yet all should have
the necessities of life; and if the poor cannot exist,
in vain may the rich look for happiness or prosperity.
The legistlature is never so well employed as when they
look to the interests of those who are at a distance
from them in the ranks of society. It is their duty
to do so; religion calls for it; humanity calls for it;
and if there are hearts who are not awake to either of
those feelings, their own interests would dictate it.

Sir Lloyd Kenyon, Rex vs. Rusby, 1800