Re: B&H puts another local camera store out of business (with my help, unfortunately)

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> Thats the problem with local shops they don't feel that they have to 
> compete with the places on the internet. A local store here closed up 
> after nearly 50 years because they didn't feel they had to compete. They

> sold everything at suggested retail, all sales were final even if a 
> product was defective they wanted you to deal with the maker, etc. I
told 
> them that they can do that and stay in business and they couldn't now
they 
> are gone.
>
> We have one more store here a Shutterbugs they charge suggested retail
for 
> nearly everything, they too didn't have a return policy until I e-mailed

> them and told them that without a return policy I would have to continue

> to shop online so they now have a 15 day return policy though the stress

> that it isn't to be used to buy something, test it out and then return
it 
> if you don't like it. It is incase there is something wrong with the
item 
> (defective).
>
> It floors me how many local stores simply don't get it. I will always
shop 
> online when I can get a better deal. They need to understand this or
they 
> go bye bye plain and simple. I have no sympothy for businesses this 
> stupid. This is a global world now when it comes to shopping we don't
have 
> to put up with high priced local stores with poor customer policies, 
> sup****t and before sale sup****t. Screw'em is what I say if they can't
keep 
> up or are too worried about the extra couple of bucks.
>
>

Most small stores do not get the price breaks from the manufacturer that
the 
big online sellers get. That's why their prices are typically higher. It's

not because they don't care, or "get it".

Every business has a certain amount of fixed costs to cover: It costs XX 
dollars to turn on the lights, have phones, pay property taxes, etc. If a 
store sells one $500 camera a day, the profit from that camera has to
cover 
the fixed costs. If the store sells 10 $500 cameras a day, each camera's 
profit only has to cover 1/10 of the fixed costs. It does not take ten
times 
as many employees to sell ten cameras as it takes to sell one. The big 
online sellers have a larger customer base and can afford a smaller profit

on each sale.