Re: Building a Central Station

["Robert L Bass" <robertlbass@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Those are very wise words, Mikey.  However, in this case the customer is
getting the same (or better) products *and* saving money.  Ruskin never
anticipated DIY, let alone online sales of professional security systems.

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Robert L Bass

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>> I'm certainly happy with the situation.  The reality is that there will
>> always be a certain number of prospective customers who guys like you
>> will
>> lose to online vendors.  That's just business.
>
> Yep, it's the common law of business practice... John Ruskin penned this a
> hundred years ago,
> still true today
>
> "There is hardly anything in the world that someone cannot make a little
> worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price alone
> are
> that person's lawful prey. It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to
> pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is
> all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the
> thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The
> common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a
> lot -
> it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add
> something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to
> pay for something better."