There's no way of knowing what is going on here or what the relationship
is between the dealer and Olympus.
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Ken Norton wrote:
> Hmm. Looks like Olympus has probably cut a nice deal with a top-dog retailer
> that happens to move 80% of the volume in the country. The mom-and-pops
> can't compete with the volume sales, so they find it difficult to sell the
> product in the face of that competition. Not too different than how B&H
> undercuts nearly everybody in the USA.
>
> On one hand I find this another example of how Olympus continually screws up
> with the retailers, but on the other hand Olympus looks at the sales numbers
> from this one retailer and recognizes that they aren't pulling their own
> weight anyway.
>
> If this store isn't moving 100+ units per week, they really don't have much
> to complain about.
>
> AG
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