RE: Musicians friend Price politics

[Travis Hartnett <tiktok@sprintmail.com>]

I wonder if that was below MF's cost?  At $1399 list, that may be the 
case.  It's not reasonable to expect someone to match below cost 
pricing.

TravisH

On Jul 28, 2004, at 6:53 AM, 
Loopers-Delight-d-request@loopers-delight.com wrote:

> From: Mountain Man <mtman@cloud9.net>
> Date: July 27, 2004 2:41:51 PM PDT
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: RE: Musicians friend Price politics
>
>
> Nope!  The MF "same price" deal is something they can decide to stick
> with ... or not.  I recently found a $799 price on a Nord G2 Engine
> advertised at 8th street music.  The web sitte didn't say whether or 
> not
> they were in stock.  I called 8th street - yep, the price was right, no
> they weren't in stock, coming in in a week or 10 days. Hmmm.  I placed
> an order, and then gave MF (which I think is short for "Mother's 
> Friend"
> <g>)  a look.  Advertised at $999.  I gave them a call.  Would they
> match the price?  Well ... they'd have to check to see if 8th street 
> had
> them in stock.  I kept my mouth shut except to guide the clerk through
> the webpages to the 8th street offer.  Well, we'll have to check to see
> if they have it in stock.  Can you hang on please?  Five minutes later
> he's back on the line, telling me that they can't match that price, 
> that
> it's below cost, and that if the price is for-real, that I should grab
> it.  No mention of whether it was in stock at 8th street, just, "sorry,
> we can't match that price".  Four days later I took delivery from 8th
> street!!!!
>