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Scott,
It's clear that Belanger backed out on you. It's poor that he did.
But what is really sh!tty is why he did it. Pressure from another vendor who has been named by 2BADD 4U as being Jon B at Parts Rack. If Jon B would have handled it more professionally than just threatening Lou B to drop his line if Lou B didn't squash you, then you would still be golden with Belanger.
Jon B should just have been smart enough to get Belanger to sell him headers on the same price structure Belanger offered you.
If Belanger was smart he would have hung up on the 3 way call and told Jon B to call back by himself and Lou B could have set up a price break for Parts Rack like RMS had, or maybe even a 15 or 20 set price break that was geared for a bigger distrubitor, then he could have offered a killer price like you were going to do.
I'm not a retail guy, and Vipermad may educate me tonight with his forth coming posts about retail, and I'm sure he can, because I haven't read retail for dummies, which I am, but I would assume there is no law that says if I manufacture something I must give all distributors the same price. If a guy buys 1 unit a year vs. a guy that buys 100 units a year, I'm sure I would give the 100 unit buyer a break. But if the 1 unit a year guy called and said I can sell 10 units right now with a little better price, and I gave that to him.... I would most likley have e-mailed, or faxed my other vendors and said I'm making a special run for the next 20 or 30 units I have a special price of *** please let me know how many you want. If distributor ABC never called to order, then later when he called and b!tched, I'd just say, I e-mailed you and I faxed you but you never replied, sorry you missed out. But that's just me and how I would do it.
It's clear that Belanger backed out on you. It's poor that he did.
But what is really sh!tty is why he did it. Pressure from another vendor who has been named by 2BADD 4U as being Jon B at Parts Rack. If Jon B would have handled it more professionally than just threatening Lou B to drop his line if Lou B didn't squash you, then you would still be golden with Belanger.
Jon B should just have been smart enough to get Belanger to sell him headers on the same price structure Belanger offered you.
If Belanger was smart he would have hung up on the 3 way call and told Jon B to call back by himself and Lou B could have set up a price break for Parts Rack like RMS had, or maybe even a 15 or 20 set price break that was geared for a bigger distrubitor, then he could have offered a killer price like you were going to do.
I'm not a retail guy, and Vipermad may educate me tonight with his forth coming posts about retail, and I'm sure he can, because I haven't read retail for dummies, which I am, but I would assume there is no law that says if I manufacture something I must give all distributors the same price. If a guy buys 1 unit a year vs. a guy that buys 100 units a year, I'm sure I would give the 100 unit buyer a break. But if the 1 unit a year guy called and said I can sell 10 units right now with a little better price, and I gave that to him.... I would most likley have e-mailed, or faxed my other vendors and said I'm making a special run for the next 20 or 30 units I have a special price of *** please let me know how many you want. If distributor ABC never called to order, then later when he called and b!tched, I'd just say, I e-mailed you and I faxed you but you never replied, sorry you missed out. But that's just me and how I would do it.