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Thread ID: 49759	2004-09-29 12:15:00	Online Shopping Experiences	ApeNz (4220)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
276874	2005-11-04 01:46:00	I would prefer to purchase from a 'bricks and mortar' place, it's just hard in Auckland to find one where: a. The staff speak English b. They are over 18 c. They are even remotely interested/excited that you want to purchase something without flashing lights of the mention of 'gaming rig'. Now if Metla was to open a Mega Store in the big smoke while offering cheerful customer service from nubile knowledgeable neatly enunciating young maidens with anti-static straps and screw drivers as jewellery accessories- he may have a winner. :D	Shortcircuit (1666)
276875	2005-11-04 01:50:00	Ascent is good but not even they always have something in stock. It took me 3 weeks to get an anti-static mat from them...with many emails back and forth as they kept changing the ETA. As a lot of stores do, they sometimes ship direct from the supplier too. I would guess that most of their sales are shipped direct from supplier. They don't operate a retail store. The Wgtn office looks like any corporate reception area.	PaulD (232)
276876	2005-11-04 02:09:00	I use that supplier that they source the Anti-Static mats from,they have a good range of accesories but supply can be haphazrd. Sometimes they ring me about gear I ordered months ago and have completly forgotten about. Which is why I dont list their gear on my site. Having said that my site is way out of date anyhow, I should probally delete every listing and start over to ensure its a bit more current.	Metla (12)
276877	2005-11-04 02:12:00	I use that supplier that they source the Anti-Static mats from,they have a good range of accesories but supply can be haphazrd. Sometimes they ring me about gear I ordered months ago and have completly forgotten about. Which is why I dont list their gear on my site. Having said that my site is way out of date anyhow, I should probally delete every listing and start over to ensure its a bit more current. I know. I had a good look there for a video Card. :groan:	JJJJJ (528)
276878	2005-11-04 02:55:00	:nerd: My loss.	Metla (12)
276879	2005-11-04 03:06:00	:nerd: My loss . Could I have come to you for printer? If so it would have been ex Met .	Cicero (40)
276880	2005-11-04 03:10:00	The big issue (as I see it ) with running an online store is that your selling to a market who (in most cases) know exactly what they want, require no advise from a sales assitent or at least will make do with the bare minimum and can quickly source out the cheapest supplier. Now, If I want to hit that market it means marking everything down so low that even the resulting sales wouldn't cover the manpower and courier costs (to Wanganui, I insist crap comes here first so the right item is on its way), Obviously it would be a bit different if I was in a main centre. The end result is my site is more an advert my my shop then a commerce site (thats no excuse for not keeping it updated, I could be doing that right now infact) So now If I had marked down everything so I was making $2.10 from each sale and I get the normal customer through the door, They don't know what they want just something better, we go through all the song and dance of their intended use, budget, expected benifit etc etc, then I sell them the product thats got no profit because I marked it down to compete with the high volume Auckland retailers....Yet its taken considerable time and effort to make that $2.10 That would be the end of me...... And the next chap who enters my shop, tells me I have unrealistic prices because my brand name Ram is $12 more expensive then some crap they get from Supercheap is going to get dropped with a flying elbow.... Muhahahahaha	Metla (12)
276881	2005-11-04 03:17:00	Could I have come to you for printer? If so it would have been ex Met. Could you have come to me for a printer? Well gee....I can source about quite a few thousand different products, Can supply just about everything that anyone else can. So yeah. Im quite surprised more Pressf1's dont at least hit me up for a price from time to time (though there are more users here using my rigs then most would guess at, then again usually their postings slow down when they get a quality rig thats well set up, or mabe its the excellent helpline and backup......Lmao, we will call that a plug). Nevermind, I'll just go back to helping others purchase the right products from other companies......	Metla (12)
276882	2005-11-04 03:40:00	Gotcha,message recieved. :)	Cicero (40)
276883	2005-11-04 03:53:00	The big issue (as I see it ) with running an online store is that your selling to a market who (in most cases) know exactly what they want, require no advise from a sales assitent or at least will make do with the bare minimum and can quickly source out the cheapest supplier. Now, If I want to hit that market it means marking everything down so low that even the resulting sales wouldn't cover the manpower and courier costs (to Wanganui, I insist crap comes here first so the right item is on its way), Obviously it would be a bit different if I was in a main centre. The end result is my site is more an advert my my shop then a commerce site (thats no excuse for not keeping it updated, I could be doing that right now infact) So now If I had marked down everything so I was making $2.10 from each sale and I get the normal customer through the door, They don't know what they want just something better, we go through all the song and dance of their intended use, budget, expected benifit etc etc, then I sell them the product thats got no profit because I marked it down to compete with the high volume Auckland retailers....Yet its taken considerable time and effort to make that $2.10 That would be the end of me...... And the next chap who enters my shop, tells me I have unrealistic prices because my brand name Ram is $12 more expensive then some crap they get from Supercheap is going to get dropped with a flying elbow.... Muhahahahaha I understand perfectly what you mean. You can't compete unless you match the lowest price available, and if you do your throughput is not high enough to cover the lower prices. It's much the same here in Rotorua. Virtualy everyone who has opened a comp. shop here has gone bust. The one we still have running only seems to stock cheap brands for popular (cheap) comps. I suppose the purpose of on line shopping is to make the lowest price availabe to everyone. Which ,of course, does nothing for the local shopkeeper. So you've got the choice. Carry a comprehensive inventory and go bust. Or carry nothing and go bust.	JJJJJ (528)
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