It also makes price comparison impossable. Customers usually dont like to admit being around. Unless he brings it up with a good dealer. Then you
can explain the real "insides" differences. Pricing was usually close
but big boxes had 1 week sales where they sold for about dealer cost.
That hurt.
73 Zeno
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Originally Posted by Electronic M
I think the idea was to make them slightly striped down and different from dealer models so if K-Mart was undercutting the local TV only dealer it wasn't on the exact same model...Thus the dealers wouldn't gripe about being under cut on a specific model and when John Q Public walks in to a dealer ship and asks why the $50 difference on a 23" console the dealer could claim the box store set was lower quality and had less features thus the different model and price.
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