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<blockquote data-quote="TJ Cornish" data-source="post: 35343" data-attributes="member: 162">Re: Still no product?...RANTThe issue is value. Everyone knows you can get stuff cheaper online/mail-order. The help (or lack there of) that I got from GC was not sufficiently valuable to justify the substantially higher cost of shopping there. I am a free market capitalist. I wold love for every business to be wildly successful, and I don&#039;t begrudge GC, at least from an impersonal standpoint, for making changes that improved their profitability. However, they still have to compete for my business, and they better offer me an awful lot for all that extra money. Before anyone accuses me of this, no I don&#039;t go look or listen at GC and then order online. If I want to see or touch it, I will buy it from where I did so. I&#039;m at the level now where neither GC nor the other local shop carry what I&#039;m shopping for anyway, at least for fairly big ticket items. One interesting counterpoint to your experience is that most of the vendors I buy from are pretty small businesses. GC in particular surely has much more purchasing power than Northernsound, the Audiopi<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f44d.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt="(y)" title="Thumbs up&nbsp; &nbsp; (y)"&nbsp; data-smilie="22"data-shortname="(y)" />les, and a few others.&nbsp; The other local shop around here deals too, and somehow they survive.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TJ Cornish, post: 35343, member: 162"] Re: Still no product?...RANT The issue is value. Everyone knows you can get stuff cheaper online/mail-order. The help (or lack there of) that I got from GC was not sufficiently valuable to justify the substantially higher cost of shopping there. I am a free market capitalist. I wold love for every business to be wildly successful, and I don't begrudge GC, at least from an impersonal standpoint, for making changes that improved their profitability. However, they still have to compete for my business, and they better offer me an awful lot for all that extra money. Before anyone accuses me of this, no I don't go look or listen at GC and then order online. If I want to see or touch it, I will buy it from where I did so. I'm at the level now where neither GC nor the other local shop carry what I'm shopping for anyway, at least for fairly big ticket items. One interesting counterpoint to your experience is that most of the vendors I buy from are pretty small businesses. GC in particular surely has much more purchasing power than Northernsound, the Audiopi(y)les, and a few others. The other local shop around here deals too, and somehow they survive. [/QUOTE]

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