Tell you an epilog to this OLY dealership: they even sent a VP to see me
complete
with camera to photograph my operation including the vault! I was impressed!
Additionally I had to sign a personal guarantee that I would pay for every item
I
ever ordered! They must have already suspected that I was gonna be controversial
on the internet! WOW!
PCA Cala wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> << I am the only OLYMPUS dealer in the world, that I know of, without a store,
> and it took me three months of negotiating to get this dealership. >>
>
> Paul's attempt at getting recognized as a vendor by Olympus tells me a lot
> about the mindset of Olympus management! Why or why couldn't they quickly
> recognize the validity of Internet-based commerce? Or was it a problem in a
> US-based retailer going international with shipments and stepping on the toes
> of Olympus divisions in other continents? Not that New York based vendors
> don't do just that, and with grey market goods to boot.
>
> A company not fixed to utilize the WWW and Internet based, international
> commerce isn't up with the times. As for road show based vendors, the
> computer industry is full of them.
>
> Who the heck wants a fixed location store front when they are selling a niche
> product? You have to make a presence where the buyers are. New York-based
> vendors made a name in mail order presence (thereby freeing me from 40 mile rt
> train rides to Altman's in Chicago to buy non-Kodak products when I was a
> kid). But just try and get SERVICE out of them! Now it is possible for sole
> proprietorships and limited partnerships to flourish and ideally bring back
> service. It is also possible for the same outfits, with storefronts, to break
> out of the limitations imposed by a fixed local and limited customer traffic.
>
> Gary Reese
> Las Vegas, NV
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