RE: Re: Clipsal Ulti

["Ian Lowe" <ianlowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't think anyone was having a go at the distributors here in the UK -
they are always going to be constrained by the pricing that the
manufacturers "suggest" to them.

I honestly don't see how it's justifiable - are the C-Bus modules sold in
Oz
different at all? (not functionally - I mean, do they carry the same
regulatory markings, is it the same outer plastic?)

It's easy to see why different pricing can exist because of different
regulation domains, or trade tarrifs, or even just the shipping costs
involved, but the differential involved seems to go beyond any idea of a
reasonable profit and well into gouging country, and that's bound to be
counterproductive.

How are businesses like C-Bus Shop supposed to build demand and grow the UK
market when anyone with a web browser can see that the same kit sells in
it's home market at such a vastly reduced price?

Given my recent escape for running my own business and back into the happy
situation of not being perpetually skint, I'm now looking at getting my HA
sorted out properly.

For all it's technical plus points, Clipsal's "rip off Britain"
pricing
combined with not actually making the latest and greatest kit available
here
tends to put me off the company as a whole.

Ian.

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Chris White
Sent: 28 March 2006 22:06
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Clipsal Ulti

Of course price fixing is not acceptable, however as distributors we
have prices we buy at.

We have to make money and these buy prices obviously dictate what we
are prepared to sell at. Hence the statement "Unfortunately there are
fixed pricing structures for us distributors to work to."

Maybe I could have typed it better but the sentiment is the same.



--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "UKHA" <ukha@...> wrote:
>
>
> On 27/03/2006 at 12:02 Chris White wrote:
>
> >Unfortunately there are fixed pricing structures for us
distributors
> >to work to.
> >
> >So getting UK product from a UK source could be difficult. Ulti
also
> >comes out of Hong Kong rather than Oz.
> >
> >It is Clipsal's CBus Wireless or Ulti Wireless you are after?
> >
> >Chris
>
> Isn't that called price fixing... and isn't it illegal? IIRC, in the
UK that's why you now
> see MSRP rather than MSP when you see flashes saying 9.99 or
whatever...
>
> I don't know anything about c-bus pricing per se - but if buying a
single unit from Oz and
> shipping it to the UK costs less than buying a unit direct from the
UK that would suggest
> price fixing is in place...
>
> just my 2pth
>
> Andy
>