B&Q stocking X-10.

["Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

As far as I can tell, it's being stocked by the Warehouses, but not the
Superstores. The Warehouses are the _big_ ones, and say
"Warehouse" on
the front in big, friendly letters.

I've had a couple of emails about this, now. Somewhat edited to take out
all the work stuff, and just concentrate on the HA ;-)



1:

From: Me
To: Jon (the CTO at B&Q direct - the part that runs diy.com)

Jon,

This is an interest of mine, so I'm glad to see that we've started
selling it. To date, it's a field that's been dominated by specialists,
and HomeBase, with most market share going to specialists.

I'm a bit confused by the model numbers. Take, for example, the Lamp
Module. The numbers "LM10", "LM11", "LM12"
are generic, used by all
other vendors, well understood be those consumers who have already
started, and want to buy more, to mean the three succesive versions...
so the B&Q product is called an "LM-1". What's an LM-1???
Which one is
it??? Is there ANY value added by not using the "normal" name?
Could you
bounce this by the category manager?


2:

(He replies)

Yep, good isn't it! Are the prices any good?

I imagine the supplier gave us the model descriptions, but I'll pass it
over
to the CM for checking.

It's not unusual for B&Q to get a supplier who "dumbs down"
complex kit
like
this ;-)

Ta
Jon

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