20-12-2007, 11:03 PM
Again i reiterate competition can only be a good thing, can't it?
All I want to do is offer small builders, fitters, designers, one-man-bands, etc an excellent product at the cheapest price I possibly can. What's wrong with that??
It's no different to when tesco started selling levi jeans for twenty quid and levi got snotty about it because they wanted to keep the price artificially high. Tesco bought the jeans on the grey market which basically let them do what they liked pricewise, and the customer was the winner. To my knowledge the levi stores are still busy aren't they? I'm not looking to tread on anyone's toes, just to make good quality rigid kitchens available to those small builders and fitters who can't afford them at the moment.
I did also say I've arranged all my own images (at some expense to myself), plus put aside over 12 grand to hopefully get it to the top of google. I think it's only fair that you reserve judgement for a few weeks (or even months) until it's up and running. It will be www.trade-kitchens.net by the way.
As I said in my earlier posting I am sure someone will come along one day and really crack the internet thing but I don't think it will be me.
When i got together with my internet guy, he asked me who is my target customer and I literally drove down to Howdens and pointed at the hairy arsed builders loading up their transits. Trying to convince them to spend a bit more on a far superior product that they have to wait a cpl weeks for is not going to be easy. I speak often to the guy about to do the hacker thing online to share marketing ideas and he's agreed to go first to see how he gets on (we have both used the same guy to build our sites).
It's a big world out there, and there is a huge space for internet retailers, even when selling the same product. It's not all about price though, if it were wouldn't lidl be busier than tesco?
All I want to do is offer small builders, fitters, designers, one-man-bands, etc an excellent product at the cheapest price I possibly can. What's wrong with that??
It's no different to when tesco started selling levi jeans for twenty quid and levi got snotty about it because they wanted to keep the price artificially high. Tesco bought the jeans on the grey market which basically let them do what they liked pricewise, and the customer was the winner. To my knowledge the levi stores are still busy aren't they? I'm not looking to tread on anyone's toes, just to make good quality rigid kitchens available to those small builders and fitters who can't afford them at the moment.
I did also say I've arranged all my own images (at some expense to myself), plus put aside over 12 grand to hopefully get it to the top of google. I think it's only fair that you reserve judgement for a few weeks (or even months) until it's up and running. It will be www.trade-kitchens.net by the way.
As I said in my earlier posting I am sure someone will come along one day and really crack the internet thing but I don't think it will be me.
When i got together with my internet guy, he asked me who is my target customer and I literally drove down to Howdens and pointed at the hairy arsed builders loading up their transits. Trying to convince them to spend a bit more on a far superior product that they have to wait a cpl weeks for is not going to be easy. I speak often to the guy about to do the hacker thing online to share marketing ideas and he's agreed to go first to see how he gets on (we have both used the same guy to build our sites).
It's a big world out there, and there is a huge space for internet retailers, even when selling the same product. It's not all about price though, if it were wouldn't lidl be busier than tesco?
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