ROFLMAO
A theoretically credible explanation, but I doubt that it applies in this case...
Yes, maybe - but I still don't understand why they don't have them 'in stock'.
It's not uncommon for a supplier to carry some of a manufacturer's products as stock items, while offering others on a "dropshipped" basis, to increase the apparent range of products offered. If done well this can offer a faster and potentially more economical service to the customer than the alternative of special ordering products into the suppliers own warehouses and shipping them on to customers.
Screwfix traditionally struck me as a place with low prices but limited choice.
When I look at BG backboxes on screwfix, most (but not all) of the surface ones are reasonablly priced and stocked by screwfix but a few are "delivered by our approved supplier" and over £10. The flush ones (both metal and dryline) are all "Delivered by our approved supplier" and over £10.
They don't sell enough... Guess why...
Sure, but it's surely a vicious circle, isn't it? They don't stock it because they don't sell enough, and the reason they don't sell enough is because of the ridiculous price (for the end-user) that results from their not stocking it. We know that if they did stock them, a viable retail price would be less than £2.60, quite possibly appreciably less, and therefore quite possibly comparable with, maybe even lower than, the retail price of a comparable product of a brand which they did stock.
Of course. That's the point. You don't think that the programmers at Screwfix are interested in looking at the reasonableness of their pricing? It is the same mentality that resulted in the book 'The Making of a Fly' being offered for $23,698,655.93 on Amazon.
Fair enough, but if it also gives them a reputation for offering some products at ridiculous prices, that might not be so much of an 'advantage'
I agree - so, as above, they might perhaps prefer not to gain a reputation for selling some products at ridiculously high prices. In particular, it would mean that some customers wanting to buy products for which there was little/no choice of brand might wonder whether the price they were being offered was 'low' or 'ridiculously high'.
Indeed. Ironically, about the only BG metal boxes that they do appear to stock are 47mm ones, which I would have thought had the smallest market of all!
I doubt whether 'the programmers' care a jot, but the commercial folk might prefer to avoid a situation in which their company became known to be selling some products at ridiculously high prices.
It's been heading that way for some years now, so they clearly don't care, or have no mechanism to find out. Maybe you should offer your services
. You're right - I misread, and was looking at 47mm surface ones - my apologies.
Well, assuming that they have at least some employees who can read and do very simple arithmetic, they ought to have at least as much relevant in-house expertise as any service I could offerIt's been heading that way for some years now, so they clearly don't care, or have no mechanism to find out. Maybe you should offer your services
I suppose it depends to some extent on what the competitors are up to, but gaining, and then maintaining, a reputation for "everything is cheap" seems to have a lot to be said for it, since customers then don't even have to 'think' about the pricing of individual products. It's a business model that seemed to work well for Woolworths for decades, and it's even possible that it was their drifting away from that model which resulted in their eventual demise. Currently Aldi and Lidl seem to be adopting that model, seemingly with considerable success.
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