Originally Posted by
joe_5700
I hope that is NOT how the average American thinks..... Bikes are only one of many items that department stores sell that are of low quality. For instance you can buy power tools and musical instruments at any department store. Chances are you are not going to find any of those tools on a real jobsite, or those instruments on stage at a show. I would think that anyone who had enough synapses firing to find themselves in an LBS would KNOW why their prices are higher than a department stores...
I wouldn't bet on it...there are threads upon threads on forums all over the place where people are convinced that everything WM sells is just as good as the stuff you pay 3 times as much for at the smaller independent stores. Some things are the same but many, many more are not. And yes the crap tools do show up on jobsites. Too many Americans only worry about price. The forums here are filled with people looking for the cheapest this or that.
"They know the price of everything and the value of nothing" it hasn't been helped by the sale of names like Schwinn and Mongoose to Pacific Cycles, people still think of Schwinn as a quality product, because they remember having one back in the 70's. Mongoose went the same way.
Aaron
