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- From: giand@opencon.com (Deepak S. Gianchandani)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers,misc.consumers.house
- Subject: Re: Kerby Vacuum Cleaners Information
- Summary: This sounds good
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.163354.15769@opencon.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 16:33:54 GMT
- References: <CLOOS.92Nov16042234@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU> <BxtGyx.8yF@mail.boi.hp.com>
- Sender: giand@opencon.com
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- Organization: OpenCon Systems, Inc.
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- In article <BxtGyx.8yF@mail.boi.hp.com> ahill@boi.hp.com writes:
- >James H. Cloos Jr. (cloos@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU) wrote:
- >>
- >> Now just what the Distributor's price is I'd be very interested to know....
- >>
- >The sales organization is a pyramid, with fairly large markups at each
- >level. Based on guesstimates from an ex-Kirby salesman, I derived an
- >approximate pricing chart:
- >
- > % Markup Generation 3 Prices
- > Ex-Factory -- 340
- > Local Warehouse 15 392
- > Area Manager Cost 20 470
- > Sales Manager Cost 20 564
- > Salesman Cost 33 750
- > List 100 1500
-
-
- Yes, this sounds about right, because when I bought mine, the
- sales person was telling me his cost is $850 (which I knew he was
- lying about) so I paid him $950 and he was happy, this is 10/11/92.
- He also won a trip to the Bhamas, so I would agree with the markups
- listed here.
- I wish I had known this before, I could have saved some money.
- I wonder if one is allowed to buy from the "Local Wearhouse" ? I
- really like the machine, from what I have seen around my house it
- cleans a lot better than the previous machines I have owned.
-
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