{butt} Plugiator

[Jay Vaughan]

> There is nothing special about the dealers role.  'Most risk' is  
> mute as
> a lot of dealers have agreements with the distrubutors that allow
> returns = no risk.
>


No really, James.  If you have a brick and mortar shop selling  
synthesizers, you own those synthesizers until you sell them to a  
customer. Very, very few synth manufacturers will do this sort of  
product return deal.  Its cash up front for X-amount of stock, and  
then its a done deal.

> When I bought my 1961 from them they didn't even have to ship it to  
> me,
> nor stock it (In fact DV don't actually keep much of anything in  
> stock)
> ... It left the drawmer factory on a truck and came straight to me.
> Some guy at DV in london called me, took my card details and took the
> lions share of the profit of that sale ...
> For what?
> Making a phone call?

For having the hassle of dealing with you.
>
> I couldn't find a single DV shop in the UK with a 1961 in stock ...  
> And
> they are Drawmers main dealer ...
>

Thats up to Drawmer, but I can tell you from what I know, *zero* synth  
mfr's allow stock return if it can't be sold.

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Jay Vaughan