quimby
Contributor
Bengals guy Loose the hair shirt and act like a quasi adult.
I had a dive shop in the 60's and no we had no internet but New England Divers, Central Skin Divers, Berries Richards all advertised to death their prices and independant instructors bought from them and sold "on the street corner etc." Dive shops came and went cause most of them needed to close. If you were more than a corner candy store you bought at about 45 off and I used a .5 mark up or approx. a 20percent discount from list to set my selling price. Then guys like Joe Shuck and scubapro started pushing "professional equip" at fair trade and John Gaffney and NASDS and the plague grew. But at least the 20-25off kept me in the running with any of them and the rest was up to me.
You, like the dotcoms need to step back and look at trees and the forest. You have to realize customers dont owe you anything!
You have to earn it all; and if you cant do price do it with value and it dont come easy. Your rant and silly comments only prove your lack of value, and you owe me ego, with every misdirected post.
Take some time off and go to another area and just check out the shops and in 5 min tell me if they deserve to stay in business or not.
And all the Life support, local support stuff, dont cut it with anyone cause it sounds like the pity pot to me.
By the way it was the 57percent profit that ticked me and all I see is the business running the poor lds owners not the other way round. (READ lack of character and mismanagement)
And I once again have my own compressor and pump my own nitrox and mix and have saved having to put up with the local egos and save enough to pay for the compressor etc.....
And Becky "but I know that when I'm talking to someone at the Shop they care, and not just someone putting in hours for a paycheck." You need a grow up pill also!
I had a dive shop in the 60's and no we had no internet but New England Divers, Central Skin Divers, Berries Richards all advertised to death their prices and independant instructors bought from them and sold "on the street corner etc." Dive shops came and went cause most of them needed to close. If you were more than a corner candy store you bought at about 45 off and I used a .5 mark up or approx. a 20percent discount from list to set my selling price. Then guys like Joe Shuck and scubapro started pushing "professional equip" at fair trade and John Gaffney and NASDS and the plague grew. But at least the 20-25off kept me in the running with any of them and the rest was up to me.
You, like the dotcoms need to step back and look at trees and the forest. You have to realize customers dont owe you anything!
You have to earn it all; and if you cant do price do it with value and it dont come easy. Your rant and silly comments only prove your lack of value, and you owe me ego, with every misdirected post.
Take some time off and go to another area and just check out the shops and in 5 min tell me if they deserve to stay in business or not.
And all the Life support, local support stuff, dont cut it with anyone cause it sounds like the pity pot to me.
By the way it was the 57percent profit that ticked me and all I see is the business running the poor lds owners not the other way round. (READ lack of character and mismanagement)
And I once again have my own compressor and pump my own nitrox and mix and have saved having to put up with the local egos and save enough to pay for the compressor etc.....
And Becky "but I know that when I'm talking to someone at the Shop they care, and not just someone putting in hours for a paycheck." You need a grow up pill also!
