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<blockquote data-quote="Nathan Lanni" data-source="post: 355109" data-attributes="member: 14629"><p>My sense is the overall industry is rather large. </p><p></p><p>There are, of course many sources of product out there, but part of what your saying, even though I don't think it's intentional, is part of the problem.</p><p></p><p>This is what I mean: With the industry on a wide scale basis referring people to B&H and Adorama in a knee jerk fashion, it literally drives the competition out. As a businessman looking at the industry I'd have to ask myself - do I invest the time, energy, money, collect staff with experience and knowledge - likely not because consumers in this industry are pointed at every turn to buy from only two companies. I think they are doing a massive volume because of the free advertizing they receive at the expensive of many other legitimate operations. I can't believe that only two companies are capable of providing a supply of quality products with top notch service. But it's a vicious cycle - it's all we can see right now so we can't see anything else.</p><p></p><p>And I'm not talking about just brick and mortar operations - brought that up because they've all disappearing.</p><p></p><p>Really all I'm suggesting is that we develop a list that individual forum members contribute to that available for anyone to use.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nathan Lanni, post: 355109, member: 14629"] My sense is the overall industry is rather large. There are, of course many sources of product out there, but part of what your saying, even though I don't think it's intentional, is part of the problem. This is what I mean: With the industry on a wide scale basis referring people to B&H and Adorama in a knee jerk fashion, it literally drives the competition out. As a businessman looking at the industry I'd have to ask myself - do I invest the time, energy, money, collect staff with experience and knowledge - likely not because consumers in this industry are pointed at every turn to buy from only two companies. I think they are doing a massive volume because of the free advertizing they receive at the expensive of many other legitimate operations. I can't believe that only two companies are capable of providing a supply of quality products with top notch service. But it's a vicious cycle - it's all we can see right now so we can't see anything else. And I'm not talking about just brick and mortar operations - brought that up because they've all disappearing. Really all I'm suggesting is that we develop a list that individual forum members contribute to that available for anyone to use. [/QUOTE]
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