Path: csiph.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed0.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: keithr Newsgroups: aus.computers,aus.electronics Subject: Re: Dick Smith Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 21:46:21 +1000 Lines: 51 Message-ID: References: <568bab3e$0$15586$c3e8da3$9deca2c3@news.astraweb.com> <04bo8blv894n6st6obj39f638ogjpr687e@4ax.com> <568c5789$0$1522$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <5hno8bh61k2umb5ts5em4m000c0pv3r7u4@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net wCVpwK59EOGJeM/yKt96qAwDs227D5DcMNeAtfDPyFiqh+GJW7 Cancel-Lock: sha1:AmtGgVi1rDBC6xr8yY4evPviTSk= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com aus.computers:50024 aus.electronics:30705 On 7/01/2016 7:03 AM, Je�us wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 22:45:39 +1000, keithr > wrote: > >> On 6/01/2016 10:26 AM, Je?us wrote: >>> On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 07:53:41 +0800, Clocky wrote: >>> >>>> On 6/01/2016 4:51 AM, Je?us wrote: >>>>> On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 00:37:02 +1100, felix wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On 05-January-2016 11:36 PM, French wrote: >>>>>>> On 05-January-2016 9:38 PM, DBR wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The otherwise good name of Dick Smith got totally f*cked over. >>>>>> >>>>>> good name? he got rich selling poor quality overpriced junk >>>>> >>>>> Care to cite an example? You seem to have an inexhaustible supply of >>>>> absolute crap at your disposal. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I think felix is just trolling so he can provide examples himself since >>>> there are a few of them but it depends on how you look at it. >>> >>> Yeah. I'm sure DS sold *some* questionable items. I mean, their >>> catalogue was huge by any standards. But on the whole it was mostly >>> decent stuff, or at least stuff hard to find anywhere else. >>> >>> There was nothing wrong with their componentry, or their Yaesu gear, >>> for example. >>> >>>> Dick often sold a cheaper alternative to the popular and mainstream and >>>> provided a gateway for more people to get into radio, computers and >>>> technology that they otherwise would not have had. >>>> >>>> The kits gave a lot of people their start in electronics also and for >>>> those reasons and more, most glass-half-full people would look at what >>>> Dick Smith achieved in a more positive light. >>> >>> Agreed. There never has been any other kind of business that has come >>> close to bettering DS in it's heyday. >>> >> I learned why Dick got rich when I went to Japan in 1980 and found that >> I could buy the same stuff that Dicky was selling at one third the price >> retail. Even after expenses he must have been making close to 100% markup. > > I think you'll find those sort of margins aren't that unusual in > retail. > Probably, fortunately I've never had to work in retail.