Home cinema - 10ft mast on 12" bracket

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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"Ivan" wrote in message
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Alan Pemberton wrote:
|| Bill Wright wrote:
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||| Marky, most full time installers are amateurs, humble or otherwise.
||| If you walk into any trade outlet and offer to pay cash you will
||| have no problem.
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|| I once walked into Blakes and offered cash for one of their famous
|| log periodics but they wanted twice the price that CPC do them for.
|| It's the same with the plumbing trade counter down the road,
|| compared with Screwfix prices for the same thing. They can all smell
|| real tradesmen a mile off.
||

Although Alan even genuine tradesmen dealing with trade outlets can
sometimes find the same item being sold in supermarkets cheaper than they
can buy it at trade price.. long gone are the days of retail price
maintenance when one was 'guaranteed' of profit margin of 33.3%.

Many years ago the situation arose that the small distribution amplifiers
we were fond of using became available at Wickes, at prices not
dissimiliar to the trade price. Now the problem is, if you install a dist.
amp you are automatically giving 12 month's on-site warranty (a free call
out and replacement) so my policy was to mark amps up by a huge margin. I
actually had customers ringing me complaining that the amp I had sold them
was available at much lower cost at Wickes. Now the fact is, Joe Public
has never understood about costs and overheads, and with some of them it's
a waste of breath telling them. They like to think that if they pay £150
for an aerial installation the aerial cost £140 and the installation cost
a tenner (instead of the other way round in the case of some installers).

Ok, well Labgear (for it was they) are entitled to trade just how they
like. They'd figured that they could make more money by selling via Wickes
than by not doing so, and good luck to them. It's the same with filling
stations that hold up the diesel queue by selling lottery tickets at the
same till. It's their decision, but there are lots of other filling
stations so if I'm delayed by lottery customers I never, ever, return.
Fair enough I think. So I spoke to Labgear and suggested that they make
some simple cosmetic changes and took the Labgear name off the amps that
they sold to Wickes. But no. So that's when I stopped using Labgear amps.
Haven't used one for 25 years now. Must have cost them a fair bit, because
I know I wasn't the only one.

Incidentally, when Antiference used to sell via Tandy they rebadged the
product and altered it slightly, which was fine.

Bill

I've got a box here with about 8 Labgear amplifiers in (all DA models), all
have died on the job and I've had to go and replace them (with Antiference
ones now).

They are all less than 2 years old. I've asked Labgear politely to help me
out and repair / replace them (or at least do something) & also assure me
these were from an isolated batch but they won't even respond.

I've tried on 3 seperate occasions, but they just refuse to respond so I've
completely stopped using their products now, and would advise anybody else
to do so.

I've got a huge stockpile of the MSA111 amps and these seem to be much more
reliable.