T&T: PYacht

[Bill Allen]

Although not a boat supplier we have a very active scuba on line store and I 
can tell you we stock everything we sell. I believe many others carry a 
decent stock. Perhaps it's because we also have a brick and mortar store. 
The interent vendors are just stores that many times can operate out of a 
warehouse or low cost location. I think if you find a location and the price 
is to cheap to be true, guess what he probally doesn't have it. Frankly you 
can't have a guy "giving" away product while absorbing the cost of 
inventory. Then it becomes incumbent on the buyer to decide wheter to go for 
the discounted price and wait or pay a little more and have it. Normally you 
just don't get great delivery and really cheap prices out of the same 
vendor. At some point you've got to realize price is not the only 
consideration when you buy something. Bill

 and in fact they stock virtually nothing, but rather have
> the product shipped direct to you from the manufacturer.  The
> manufacturer has nothing to loose, as he has progressively more and more
> fingers out there trying to make a sale and get a commission.  These
> web-stores know the "transfer" price (more or less the equivalent of
> their wholesale price) that they have to work with, and it is up to them
> how little gross margin they are willing to work with, the more hungry
> for sales, the less margin they take.