Recently, I have eard a lot of fuss about Life & Like correcting -at high- their MRSP on to-be-released items as the GP18s and GP60s.
Some LHS have complained that they already had a lot of pre-orders with pricing based in the previous MRSP, and now they were left with the issue of:
1) eating the increase off their margin (not a good fix)
2) traslate the increase to the customers that had the items pre-ordered (no comments...)
3) go 'salomonic' (cut off part of the increase from their margins and traslate the rest to customers).
I don't know the real dimension of it, but it don't seems to me a wise bussiness practice this.
If you left the final customers with the feeling of have been 'toasted', and the distributors/dealers take all the flak (in their wallet and in their ears) for the increases, soon the people (LHS and modellers) will choose not pre-ordering items from these manufacturers, prefering instead to 'wait and see'.
Only my point.
Some LHS have complained that they already had a lot of pre-orders with pricing based in the previous MRSP, and now they were left with the issue of:
1) eating the increase off their margin (not a good fix)
2) traslate the increase to the customers that had the items pre-ordered (no comments...)
3) go 'salomonic' (cut off part of the increase from their margins and traslate the rest to customers).
I don't know the real dimension of it, but it don't seems to me a wise bussiness practice this.
If you left the final customers with the feeling of have been 'toasted', and the distributors/dealers take all the flak (in their wallet and in their ears) for the increases, soon the people (LHS and modellers) will choose not pre-ordering items from these manufacturers, prefering instead to 'wait and see'.
Only my point.