[C320-list] Price matching

[Larry Frank]

Yes but if you don¹t buy from those selling at the lower price they will
be losing business and will eventually go out of business or WM will buy
them.  Then WM will be able to charge whatever they want and there will be
no more price matching.

On 10/18/18, 7:49 PM, "Brad" <bkuether at comcast.net> wrote:

>I bought all of my supplies this spring from WM, and they matched every
>add I presented to them.  No fuss, no muss.  Also I had the paint
>delivered to the store, and didn¹t have to pay the hazardous shipping
>fee, or any shipping at all!
>
>I am OK with this model for the real expensive stuff like paint.
>Otherwise it makes them somewhat expensive for the smaller stuff you may
>not be able to find or stuff that is WM proprietary.
>
>Sent from Mail for Windows 10
>
>From: Martin Rosenberg
>Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2018 8:02 PM
>To: C320-List at catalina320.com
>Subject: Re: [C320-list] Price matching
>
>I believe that West Marine ceased price matching a few years ago. I found
>that I was buying less than a third  of my previous purchases from WM
>after
>that.
>I feel that buying a resale item off the shelf shouldn't cost me a premium
>because a store is inefficient.
>Martin
>
>On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 7:55 PM bstumpp at comcast.net <bstumpp at comcast.net>
>wrote:
>
>>
>> As others have said, using West Marine to price-match less expensive
>> suppliers will eventually increase prices and/or drive the less
>>expensive
>> suppliers out of business.  IMHO.  Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE
>>Smartphone
>>
>