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Hunting around the internet for a good price on a 2004 Sirrus Sport
and can't seem to find anyone selling them for less than £499. Is this price fixing or what? Darth. |
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Dr Darth wrote:
Hunting around the internet for a good price on a 2004 Sirrus Sport and can't seem to find anyone selling them for less than =A3499. Is this price fixing or what? If a line is selling well enough there's nothing much to gain from=20 discounting it, except in the very short term. So people don't, and=20 stick to the SRP. If you can find a local shop selling it at all it'll probably be at the=20 same price and you can reap the benefits of buying from a place that=20 will set it up for you and let you try it out before putting your money=20 down. IMHO that sort of thing is worth more in the longer term than=20 saving =A320. Pete. --=20 Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/ |
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Dr Darth wrote:
Hunting around the internet for a good price on a 2004 Sirrus Sport and can't seem to find anyone selling them for less than £499. Is this price fixing or what? I am unable to find anybody who will sell me a new carbon Windcheetah for £50. Price-fixing, gotta be. Guy -- May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting. http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk 88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at Washington University |
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Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:
Dr Darth wrote: Hunting around the internet for a good price on a 2004 Sirrus Sport and can't seem to find anyone selling them for less than £499. Is this price fixing or what? I am unable to find anybody who will sell me a new carbon Windcheetah for £50. Price-fixing, gotta be. Condsidering your excoriation of Bill Zaumen for making dishonest arguments, you've got a damned cheek here. -- Keith Willoughby http://flat222.org/keith/ I have seen the enemy, and he is quite short. |
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"Keith Willoughby" wrote in message
... Just zis Guy, you know? wrote: Dr Darth wrote: Hunting around the internet for a good price on a 2004 Sirrus Sport and can't seem to find anyone selling them for less than £499. Is this price fixing or what? I am unable to find anybody who will sell me a new carbon Windcheetah for £50. Price-fixing, gotta be. Condsidering your excoriation of Bill Zaumen for making dishonest arguments, you've got a damned cheek here. I'll bite : what's dishonest about the analogy? cheers, clive |
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Clive George wrote:
"Keith Willoughby" wrote in message ... Just zis Guy, you know? wrote: Dr Darth wrote: Hunting around the internet for a good price on a 2004 Sirrus Sport and can't seem to find anyone selling them for less than £499. Is this price fixing or what? I am unable to find anybody who will sell me a new carbon Windcheetah for £50. Price-fixing, gotta be. Condsidering your excoriation of Bill Zaumen for making dishonest arguments, you've got a damned cheek here. I'll bite : what's dishonest about the analogy? Never mind all that, what's a Darth doing looking for a stick bike? Eh? EH?? -- Dave Larrington - http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/ ================================================== ========= Editor - British Human Power Club Newsletter http://www.bhpc.org.uk/ ================================================== ========= |
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Clive George wrote:
"Keith Willoughby" wrote in message ... Just zis Guy, you know? wrote: Dr Darth wrote: Hunting around the internet for a good price on a 2004 Sirrus Sport and can't seem to find anyone selling them for less than £499. Is this price fixing or what? I am unable to find anybody who will sell me a new carbon Windcheetah for £50. Price-fixing, gotta be. Condsidering your excoriation of Bill Zaumen for making dishonest arguments, you've got a damned cheek here. I'll bite : what's dishonest about the analogy? It's not an analogy at all. It was simple mocking. The reason you can't find a carbon Windcheetah for 50 quid is that they cost a bajillion times that to make. It's perfectly possible that the reason you can't find a 2004 Sirrus Sport for less than 499 quid is price-fixing, especially if 499 is the RRP, considering that similar price fixing via 'minimum pricing' is hardly uknown in manufacturer/dealer relationships such as this. Guy, however, evidently couldn't be bothered to debate the issue, preferring to take the **** out of the OP by using an absurd extrapolation that has little to do with the original point. Which would hardly bare comment normally, except I've been reading Guy making about a hundred posts criticising Bill Zaumen for similar lapses in logic, honesty, and politeness. -- Keith Willoughby http://flat222.org/keith/ "I've got nothing against your right leg. Unfortunately, neither have you." |
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On 18 Aug 2004 02:02:11 -0700, Dr Darth wrote:
Hunting around the internet for a good price on a 2004 Sirrus Sport and can't seem to find anyone selling them for less than £499. Is this price fixing or what? Darth. I don't think that any of them have anything to gain by making their discount policy public knowledge on the net. I suspect that if you actually visit a few shops (i.e. physically, in person) and talk to them you'll find them willing to do deals. These may take various forms such as price discounts or free bits and pieces like pumps, lights and pedals. If they won't do deals it's because they don't need your business at lower prices. -- Michael MacClancy Random putdown - "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." -Oscar Wilde www.macclancy.demon.co.uk www.macclancy.co.uk |
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"Dr Darth" wrote in message om... Hunting around the internet for a good price on a 2004 Sirrus Sport and can't seem to find anyone selling them for less than £499. Is this price fixing or what? Darth. These are popular bikes so why would the shop discount them if they are selling anyway? When I tried to buy a Spec Comp from my LBS a few weeks back they were sold out at all 3 shops, and the factory was as well, and they arent making any more, they are now gearing up for the 2005 bikes. Evans in London might have some Sports, they have got some comps and elites. BW looking at the Spec web site, next years Sirrus wont have triples, they will be doubles, 53/36 (from memory) rather than 52/42/30. That doesnt sound like an improvement to me....or do the the ranges overlap enough that it makes no diff in practice? FWIW if you are small, evans have the 2003 Spec Sport for only £350. (only got size 47 according to their web site) -- Tumbleweed email replies not necessary but to contact use; tumbleweednews at hotmail dot com |
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Keith Willoughby wrote:
Condsidering your excoriation of Bill Zaumen for making dishonest arguments, you've got a damned cheek here. The reason you can't find a carbon Windcheetah for 50 quid is that they cost a bajillion times that to make. Bajillion times? Considering your excoriation of Guy for making dishonest arguments, you've got a damned cheek here ;-) Tony |
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