Re: Building a Central Station

["mikey" <loismustdie@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Robert L Bass" <robertlbass@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> I love customers like that.  Usually they go online and search for prices
>> on a DVR, several cameras and whatnot.  They already know the specific
>> makes and models.  Sometimes they don't even call -- just place an order
>> online.
>
> And you are proud of this?

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."







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