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<blockquote data-quote="Silas Pradetto" data-source="post: 100046" data-attributes="member: 34">Re: Pro Audio SalesThat&#039;s pretty much what my company and all other medium-size production companies I know of do. This is exactly what Camel Traders is - the store name for American Concert Entertainment Services in Troy, NY. Selling gear at or below cost is not something I want to do; I don&#039;t want to devalue the product. Unfortunately it seems that the market itself is devalued.The other major problem with selling product is MAP - you literally have to advertise the exact same price that every other online retailer already is advertising. Then when your JBL speaker is the same price as the same JBL speaker at Musician&#039;s Friend, you wonder why you never sell anything. So small-scale sales are limited to word-of-mouth customers, repeat customers, or local customers. You are never going to be able to compete online or via any advertising media anywhere.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Silas Pradetto, post: 100046, member: 34"] Re: Pro Audio Sales That's pretty much what my company and all other medium-size production companies I know of do. This is exactly what Camel Traders is - the store name for American Concert Entertainment Services in Troy, NY. Selling gear at or below cost is not something I want to do; I don't want to devalue the product. Unfortunately it seems that the market itself is devalued. The other major problem with selling product is MAP - you literally have to advertise the exact same price that every other online retailer already is advertising. Then when your JBL speaker is the same price as the same JBL speaker at Musician's Friend, you wonder why you never sell anything. So small-scale sales are limited to word-of-mouth customers, repeat customers, or local customers. You are never going to be able to compete online or via any advertising media anywhere. [/QUOTE]

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