[Amps] REL

[R.Measures]

On Apr 13, 2005, at 11:22 AM, Bill Fuqua wrote:

> It is called a monopoly and manipulating the market by eliminating 
> competition.

That was the way the DoJ saw it. Bill.
-  At one time, John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Co.  controlled 94+% 
of the gasoline in the United States.  As Ken Lay's Enron showed us, 
the Achilles heel of capitalism is undoubtedly corporate ethics.  Had 
it not been for unbridaled capitalism and corporate ethics, Karl Marx 
would have had no ammunition for his book "Das Kapital", George 
Orwell's book "Animal Farm" would not exist,  and there would have been 
no Berlin wall to tear down.
--  note:  Rockefeller was devoutly religious and Ken Lay professes to 
be.  Apparently, this gives such men some sort of a divine license to 
rob widows and orphans and get eternally rewarded for it way up yonder. 
  
>
> 73
> Bill wa4lav
>
>
> At 01:42 PM 4/13/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>> If your commercial business is fortunate to have the cash flow
>> whereby regular purchases are made from REL, your business will
>> find itself on an advantageous pricing tier.
>>
>> REL has a ten-tier pricing system. Amateur operators needing
>> an occasional single or double item order are at the very tail
>> end of the system with the highest prices.
>>
>> For instance, a new 3CPX1500A7 purchased as an amateur
>> from C&D in Florida was priced at approximately $1400. The very
>> same device on the REL website shows a $3400 tag, (or at least
>> it did about 11 months ago).
>>
>> I saw a John Wayne movie about exploring the Yukon. An orange
>> sold at the border town for a dollar, and that was supposedly in the
>> 1800's. The point is that it was what the market could bear.
>>
>> It's the same deal with REL. They are in bed with Eimac, and the
>> only "official" distributor. They paid for the privilege. They now 
>> charge
>> what the market will bear.
>>
>> There are a number of private companies that do have direct purchasing
>> rights with Eimac. They need to buy fifty or a hundred devices at a 
>> time
>> to continue to do business. They qualify for a certain pricing: It's 
>> the
>> deal
>> they made.
>>
>> We have a narrow choice. We can keep on buying up Soviet and Chinese
>> devices and hope they don't all-of-a-sudden decide to pull the plug, 
>> but
>> it's the same deal with Eimac, isn't it?
>>
>> Without casting aspersions on anybody, is not what REL does considered
>> Good Business? They are not in business for their health or for any of
>> ours,
>> and from the looks of the tube industry over a thirty year period I
>> personally don't blame them for playing hardball. I may not like it,
>> knowing the local hospital is buying 8877's for 500 bucks apiece from
>> REL,
>> but once again, that's the deal.
>>
>> Hal Mandel
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