[rodgersorganusers] Re: New Organ Blues
- From: Al Murrell <tam6111949@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rodgersorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 09:50:58 -0800 (PST)
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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