Re: MAP Pricing Structure
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BasraBoy</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Have you tried asking Pepsi or Coke?
I'm only giving examples of how I operate in my business.....
As alread said...other sectors/companies may act or interpret MAP differently.
But we set NO restriction on sales price only advertsied price and anyone entering into a contact with us has the choice to accept the way we operate or not get involved with us.
There seems a lot of input in these threads that make me wonder how to equate buying US manufactured products with the desire to drive the price down to the lowest possible point.
Living (and being engaged in a home-market based manufacturing business) in a country where the traditional manufacturing base has all but been destroyed, I am dumbfounded at the apparent desire by some posters here to create a similar situation elsewhere.
Wanting the best quality possible WITHIN a given budget is normal.
Aspiring to better, more capable products than we own is normal
Wanting the BEST but not wanting to pay for it or resenting those that uphold the value and quality of their product, is just sour grapes and the road to mediocrity for all. </div></div>
The last line in my post was sarcasm. I get that you understand, but many do not. Pepsi and Coke call it margin control, not price control. Mention price control and they'll walk out.
I have the unfortunate privelege of knowing some ex-textile manufactures here in NC and southern VA. All with similar stories. Good guys paying their people good wages. They tried to explain to their employees that in order to pay them their $18/hr, their products(shirts and pants) will retail for $40 to $60 along with the retailers selling their products. Well the employees still went to walmart and bought the $12 shirts and pants so after a year and a half or so of loosing money, the owners shut the mills down and moved to Hilton Head, Charleston, and Ocean Isle. They are still comfortable, but all of their employees lost their good paying jobs because they didn't understand the correlation.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BasraBoy</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Have you tried asking Pepsi or Coke?
I'm only giving examples of how I operate in my business.....
As alread said...other sectors/companies may act or interpret MAP differently.
But we set NO restriction on sales price only advertsied price and anyone entering into a contact with us has the choice to accept the way we operate or not get involved with us.
There seems a lot of input in these threads that make me wonder how to equate buying US manufactured products with the desire to drive the price down to the lowest possible point.
Living (and being engaged in a home-market based manufacturing business) in a country where the traditional manufacturing base has all but been destroyed, I am dumbfounded at the apparent desire by some posters here to create a similar situation elsewhere.
Wanting the best quality possible WITHIN a given budget is normal.
Aspiring to better, more capable products than we own is normal
Wanting the BEST but not wanting to pay for it or resenting those that uphold the value and quality of their product, is just sour grapes and the road to mediocrity for all. </div></div>
The last line in my post was sarcasm. I get that you understand, but many do not. Pepsi and Coke call it margin control, not price control. Mention price control and they'll walk out.
I have the unfortunate privelege of knowing some ex-textile manufactures here in NC and southern VA. All with similar stories. Good guys paying their people good wages. They tried to explain to their employees that in order to pay them their $18/hr, their products(shirts and pants) will retail for $40 to $60 along with the retailers selling their products. Well the employees still went to walmart and bought the $12 shirts and pants so after a year and a half or so of loosing money, the owners shut the mills down and moved to Hilton Head, Charleston, and Ocean Isle. They are still comfortable, but all of their employees lost their good paying jobs because they didn't understand the correlation.