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Originally Posted by bluepilot
. For the shop, the quoted price was the wholesale price. They expected me to pay a few hundred pounds more. The result was that I bought online. In the meantime the shop has disappeared.
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It's quite true. There is no retail margin in stuff anymore. As a consequence, I now don't carry any new stock at all, apart from aerial and satellite materials. None of my distributers can even sell to me ay Amazon prices, let alone beat them.
I wanted to trade order a 5GHz point to point link... the margin on £350 was £2 and then they wanted to charge me 2.5% for the card fees as it wasn't a retail sale. I really only keep my shop open as a High St office and roadside advert. If I relied on sales I would have gone pop years ago as all my competitors have.