Originally Posted by
Burton
Talk to the shop manager. Make it clear that you're willing to pay for quality products and won't settle for anything else. They do need feedback from customers to know that what they're buying is what the market wants. Lots of people just pick from whats available - even if its not what they want.
Contrary to popular opinion - dealers don't WANT to sell cheap junk. They make more money selling more expensive items. But general consumer behavior is making lots of dealers believe that consumers are only interested in price - not quality. Speak up! Say it ain't so!
I have, and they've told me the customers ***** if they get anything but the cheapest, and they don't think they'd sell enough to walk in customers buying tubes to stock them. Pretty much everyone thinks a tube's a tube, why spend more? They all tell me they'll order them for me, but when I'm buying a tube, it's because I need one.