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Repro Parts WAS Bad Parts

To: "'Mike Denman'" <mikedenman@earthlink.net>, type79@ix.netcom.com
Subject: Repro Parts WAS Bad Parts
From: type79@ix.netcom.com
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 07:33:17 -0700
Listers,

Someone who chooses to sit out this public thread, contacted me off-list with an
interesting comment on this subject.

The lister questioned the profit margin on parts sourced from Asian suppliers 
and
theorized that it is far greater than the profit margin from European 
suppliers. If
this is true, he commented, why don't the retailers selling these parts pass on 
the
savings, or to put it another way, apply the same markup to these parts rather 
than,
for example, selling the $5.00 part for $20.00?

Am I on a soap box? Yes. I have been fooling with lbc's for more than 20 years 
and
hop-scotching through the repro parts jungle for that entire time, hearing the 
same
reasons/excuses year after year.

Jay Fishbein
Wallingford, CT


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