Originally Posted by
njkayaker
Which they would if they could make money doing so!
Or, they're not doing it because they thumb their nose at lower end bikes.
A whole $40! How generous of you! LBS's should be beating a path to your door!
$40 for nothing but buying it at an LBS? I think that's quite generous, seeing how they could buy the same thing in lots from Target, mark it up by $40, and make the sale.
We still have no idea what bicycle you are talking about.
http://www.target.com/p/Schwinn-700c...y/-/A-13241183
Such a tiny difference probably isn't worth the effort for the LBS, especially, when people would still go to Target to save the $40!
I'm sure some would still go to Target to save the $40. However, you would more people coming to the LBS when they see that the lowest price point isn't $500 for a road bike, and $350 for a beach cruiser...
We really have no idea how "similarly spec'ed" they are.
See the specs above. Similar bike at LBS starts at $500.
Well, to have to work to, maybe, make an extra $40 on a $260 bike might actually be a bad way to run a LBS!.
What work would there be, that isn't the same as every other bike sale, short of driving down to a local department store, finding the diamonds in the rough, loading them up, and selling them?
If you want to spend $260, there's a place to do that.
Right, because I find it hard to justify $500 on entry level bikes...
Again, I think you are missing my point, which is LBS's should expand their entry level offerings. Do I think they should sell junk BSO's? No.