[rodgersorganusers] Re: New Organ Blues

You make excellent points here.  I do not know Ronnie
but I agree that there are those who are informed and
are not swayed by total stop count, and so forth. 
However, I still hold to my feeling that prices should
not be on the internet.  A customer can go anywhere to
by a car in any city regardless of where he lives. 
This cannot be done with Rodgers or Allen organs.  I
don't won't some other dealer setting my prices. 

Al
--- diapason@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> As a technician rather than a salesperson or
> customer, let me approach this interesting debate
> from a different angle.
> 
> Many consumers make their buying decisions based
> purely on the specifications and prices of available
> brands.  Tires, for example are usually purchased in
> that way.  A typical non-musician on an organ
> committee will apply his tire-shopping logic to the
> decision about an organ.  This person will obtain
> stoplists and prices for various brands and quickly
> determine which organ seems to be the best value.
> 
> Last week I serviced an organ that a church had
> bought in exactly that way.  It has a bigger
> stoplist than what they thought was the comparable
> Rodgers model, so of course they chose the "better
> value."  More bang for the buck, they felt.  But the
> console is almost laughably shoddy, the speakers
> look like guitar amps hung on the chancel wall
> (including little red pilot lights staring at the
> congregation) and the tonal quality falls way below
> Rodgers'.  Add to that, they can't find the dealer
> who sold it and the minister of music (one of my
> customers at a previous church) called the Rodgers
> tech to work on this orphan.  But the church got a
> real "deal" by comparing prices.
> 
> That approach, I think, is the nemesis of posting
> prices in a field where it's hard even for an
> informed person to know whether he's comparing
> apples and apples.
> 
> I can also see Ronnie Johnston's point.  His church
> is located a long distance from a typical dealer's
> showroom.  Looking at organs is not something he can
> casually do in two or three afternoons.  And there's
> no guarantee that the dealer for Brand X is located
> in the same city as the dealer for Brand Z.  Ronnie
> might have to travel hundreds of miles in different
> directions to visit a number of competing brands. 
> For an experienced organist like him, already aware
> of the issues of quality and reputation, internet
> shopping does make sense.
> 
> So how is this debate going to end?  Some marketing
> observers tell us that insurance agents are a
> shrinking breed due to internet purchases, and that
> automobile dealers are in the same boat.  Wonder
> what that means for organ dealers?  
> 
> Bill Ehrke
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 


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