canadian sirius
11-30-2005, 01:13 PM
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so i buy a cmb3 for 116$, sell them for 199 all day long, 83$ profit. buy a sirius 1 from erickson for 60, future shop advertises it for 69, even with the 15 dollar kickback our profit has gone from 83$ to 24$, nice huh
11-30-2005, 02:08 PM
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Nice to also see how scewed the playing field truly is as well. I don't think FS is paying $60.00 for that unit. The distributors had better start to look at any independent regardless of size as being one large big box comprised of all of the indies and delivering us the exact same pricing.
Trust the big box to further erode margins again. Take Eclipse for example. I had no problems selling cd players at 35 or 40 points. Now that FS has the line it is being continuously advertised at 25 or less. So who is their competitor that they need to blatantely drop margins like this? Another big box store, nope. It is a sad state that when because you are forced to take skinny margins on other heads that it creates a blanket way of doing business for other profitable lines.
[ November 30, 2005, 03:11 PM: Message edited by: MR2NR ]
Trust the big box to further erode margins again. Take Eclipse for example. I had no problems selling cd players at 35 or 40 points. Now that FS has the line it is being continuously advertised at 25 or less. So who is their competitor that they need to blatantely drop margins like this? Another big box store, nope. It is a sad state that when because you are forced to take skinny margins on other heads that it creates a blanket way of doing business for other profitable lines.
[ November 30, 2005, 03:11 PM: Message edited by: MR2NR ]
11-30-2005, 05:23 PM
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the only people who are going to make any money is mitek and erickson. their is no lonmger any money in the hardware and the kickback will never find its way the sales floor.
11-30-2005, 08:05 PM
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Wait until you see the Audiovox piece again. It should be out soon.
11-30-2005, 11:51 PM
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The myfi is going to be 399, I wonder is big box will that peice out before any cost drops on it. Too bad there wasn't a direct kickback to sales staff for activation, like with a cell phone. I was almost expecting that originally from both services.
12-01-2005, 07:34 AM
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im just disappointed that the margins have been cut so drastically. i am shipping all the ones i got from erickson back, they are, for the most part useless to me and my staff. i have encourages all of the other stores to so the same thing. we have already gotten around the b.s. canadian credit card thing(there is no issue at all that was some story that someone, somewhere came up with)
we will continue to support the american version and sell off of the canadian one, which is pretty easy seeeing as how everyone coming in wants the american one anyway and there is no problem getting stock
we will continue to support the american version and sell off of the canadian one, which is pretty easy seeeing as how everyone coming in wants the american one anyway and there is no problem getting stock
12-01-2005, 12:44 PM
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just activated 3 or 4 on the sirius website with no issues at all
12-01-2005, 01:23 PM
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I'm not sure about Sirius but with XM (at least the Pioneer version), there's no difference in the hardware from US to Canada.
Wouldn't it then be best to support the authorized Canadian distributor & then the consumer can decide how they want to activate it?
Wouldn't it then be best to support the authorized Canadian distributor & then the consumer can decide how they want to activate it?
