<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </style> <style>.hmmessage P{margin:0px;padding:0px}body.hmmessage{FONT-SIZE: 10pt;FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma}</style>Dick,<br>'Making profit is fine BUT....'  <br>But what?  Hopefully this won't lead into a protracted discussion.<br>I will not debate the shipping since most people spend multiples of that in wasted time and driving.<br>Shipping is whatever it is.<br>Regarding pricing of products:<br>Inventronics, or Schafff or Renner or Yamaha or Steinway or for that matter IBM, APPLE Toyota or any company still in business is there because they charge appropriate pricing for their products.<br>Understand that the smaller the company the more critical it is to charge appropriate pricing.<br>We as their sole source of consumers need to support them and thus be charging resale pricing accordingly.<br>The vast majority of tuners and technicians are way way <span style="text-decoration: underline;">under</span> priced for the services they provide.<br>E.O.R<br><br>Gerry Cousins, RPT<br><br>Subject: RE: SAT Thumb Switch Cord<br><div class="ExternalClass PlainTextMessageBody" id="MsgContainer"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft SafeHTML"><br><style><br>.ExternalClass .EC_hmmessage P<br>{padding:0px;}<br>.ExternalClass body.EC_hmmessage<br>{font-size:10pt;font-family:Tah</style>Icalled Inventronics to purchase a new cord for my thumb switch.  $25plus about $8 shipping.  I got a cord with 1/8' tips and two adaptorsto make the Accutuner size for around $9.00.  Making profit is fineBUT.......<br><br> <br><br>Dick Day<br><br>Marshall MI</div></body> </html>