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  2. From: kassover@rumsey.crd.ge.com (David Kassover)
  3. Newsgroups: rec.woodworking
  4. Subject: Re: Collective Buying Power
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec23.201248.18291@crd.ge.com>
  6. Date: 23 Dec 92 20:12:48 GMT
  7. References: <1992Dec23.150425.29983@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <1992Dec23.150919.473@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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  13. In article <1992Dec23.150919.473@cbfsb.cb.att.com> millios@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (william.l.millios) writes:
  14. >Has it occurred to anyone else that the people who read rec.woodworking
  15. >have a large collective buying power?
  16. >
  17. >Wouldn't it be nice if we could negotiate with one company that we
  18. >buy all our equipment/supplies from that company in exchange for
  19. >a price break?  They'd be getting a very high volume of orders/
  20. >income, in view of the high amount of disposable income that 
  21. >"Gary Preckshot's computer buddies" (reference Grizzly Bandsaw)
  22. >seem to have.
  23. >
  24.  
  25. Ah, yet another buyer's coop/big distributer/importer interface.
  26.  
  27. I don't buy strictly on price.
  28.  
  29. And I'm not so sure I want to be lumped in with Mr. Preckshot's
  30. computer buddies.
  31.  
  32.  
  33.  
  34. -- 
  35. David Kassover             "Proper technique helps protect you against
  36. uupsi!khazad!kassover              sharp weapons and dull judges."
  37. kassover@aule-tek.com                   F. Collins
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