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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#ff0000 size=2>Are you suggesting that no one at
Pianotek has seen a Schaff price list and vice-versa? <FONT color=#333333>No,
but I am suggesting that the people at Pianotek want to <EM>believe</EM>
that Schaff cannot easily get their prices and vice versa. You also make a
good point about consumers knowing the prices. My point is that trying to
protect one's price list in this day and age of instant information availability
is just nonsense, no matter the reason for wanting to do so. I used to
encounter this in the housewares industry, particularly at new product
introductions during trade shows. We all knew that any one of our reps
could, within milliseconds, make our price lists available to the entire
industry, consumers included, yet we continued to play the game. Finally,
I went to the president of one of my major competitors and just said, "Look, you
know and I know and you know I know . . .ya da ya da ya da . . ." and we finally
grew into the twentieth century. But, of course, that was <EM>last</EM>
century.</FONT></FONT></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>