I made this comment because I think distributors should make a minimal profit. I.e. maybe 15-20 percent to cover returns and overhead costs. If a price is agreed upon then it will stop some of the less scrupulous distributors from shoving this product out at cost purely to generate site traffic/secondary purchases. If this were to happen, other distributors in the same country may see fit to drop the product as it isnt selling or is unprofitable to stock as a business due to having to foot the cost of any returns/customer service problems etc. This would leave the unscrupulous distributor free to charge what they wanted for the product as they now had the sole market for this product open to them. Just my thoughts (again ;) on the matter. Cheers Dom ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wouter van Ooijen" To: Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 9:05 AM Subject: Re: [PIC]: Piclist Beginners Kit (PBK) > > I dont see why anybody should have exclusive rights to > > distribute in any > > country. As long as a country specific price is agreed upon, > > there should be > > no problems or arguments. This would also stop a country distributor > > artificially inflating the price of the sold product. I would > > prefer it if > > there were two or three distributors per country for this reason. > > As one who is potentially interested in distributing I wonder why 'agree > on a country specific price'? In some countries it might even be against > the law, and it cetrainly runs against free trade, and a few other free > world ideals. And why should a distributor be bound to one country? > > Wouter van Ooijen > ---------------------------------------------- > Van Ooijen Technische Informatica: www.voti.nl > consultancy, development, PICmicro products > > -- > http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! > email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body > > > -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body