Originally Posted by TheManShow

Your post has merit about the local bike shop, and I did give a couple a chance at ordering me a frame & fork that they could order. But did not have in inventory. Both offered me a price of full MSRP, becase of their overhead. Well lost sale = nothing to pay said overhead.

I assume these shop have more business then they can handle, so it is not in their intrest to discount anything. But the LBS's complain about "their" customer not buyin from them. They moan and grown about the Performances, Nashbars, and other on line dealers cutting their prices.

Tis is called competation, choices,and on line shopping that is good for the consumer IMHO. It is no longer an industry were consumer have to go to brick & morter retail stores, and pay the full MSRP, or MSRP + rate.