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The future of hifi in SA; is the industry running on empty or ?
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<blockquote data-quote="achim" data-source="post: 1103761" data-attributes="member: 14383"><p>..I would NOT take Austria as a Reference....in many cases austrian dealers getting supplied by the german Importer (as we supplied Austria with rega, Unison Research and others). </p><p></p><p>More important is that Austria is a tiny little country where distances are short and all levels of logistics are simple and cheap. To deliver a product from Cape Town to Jo burg is like shipping from Frankfurt to Paris.</p><p></p><p>Volume speaks and makes the price. There is a significant difference in price if you sell and send 100.000 items via DHL or UPS (as we did for many years) or a couple of hundred. There are also other factors which must be considered into the price - service issues easily doubling the shipping costs and different to cables or speakers ....there is always "something" with electronics.</p><p></p><p>The Denon price in SA seems fair to me. The Marantz prices allows the Importer to offer extraordinary service, gives high & flexible margins to dealers (especially to pack bundles and specials). There are different worlds in the audio industry.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="achim, post: 1103761, member: 14383"] ..I would NOT take Austria as a Reference....in many cases austrian dealers getting supplied by the german Importer (as we supplied Austria with rega, Unison Research and others). More important is that Austria is a tiny little country where distances are short and all levels of logistics are simple and cheap. To deliver a product from Cape Town to Jo burg is like shipping from Frankfurt to Paris. Volume speaks and makes the price. There is a significant difference in price if you sell and send 100.000 items via DHL or UPS (as we did for many years) or a couple of hundred. There are also other factors which must be considered into the price - service issues easily doubling the shipping costs and different to cables or speakers ....there is always "something" with electronics. The Denon price in SA seems fair to me. The Marantz prices allows the Importer to offer extraordinary service, gives high & flexible margins to dealers (especially to pack bundles and specials). There are different worlds in the audio industry. [/QUOTE]
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