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Author: SecondTry
Date: 2024-05-10 18:46
No, this isn't spam.
It's a business idea, and likely one that will have difficulty with traction despite it filling a need. It came to a head for me with the closing of brick and motar Sam Ash Music stores.
Need I tell you, the presence of brick and mortar establishments, where one can go into a space and have a hands on experience with product is becoming rarer with each passing year. And nobody here needs much business background to know why. Real estate and the staff to run it not only costs money, while inventory on an internet based paradigm can be stored where land is cheaper and sales foot traffic scarcer, but the establishments which provide this in store service gratis often end up loosing business to some online establishment that got the sale after the customer confirmed their fondness of the product in the store.
I call this, for those in the States, the "Best Buy" experience. You try out your product in this electronics chain (a highly competitive industry) and if you like it, buy it online--not always: sometimes you point of purchase a good, or buy it from Best Buy's online presence, but enough times you don't for store management to have concern that their overhead is feeding someone else's business.
And yet, in our world, where musical instruments and players can vary, trying out an instrument and returning it after sale through shipping is wrought with costs and issues.
It would be nice for an agnostic-to-any-vendor storefront to exist, that can for a fee to the merchant, inventory products for a short time for potential sellers to try.
Say that you're in the market for a particular Yamaha clarinet: oddly enough IMHO the one clarinet I'd most likely buy on the internet given their consistency....
Well five (5) of them could be send to a storefront for, say, a week's time, cheaper than using common carriers like UPS and FedEx to have one customer try one instrument at a time.
Thoughts?
Post Edited (2024-05-11 01:01)
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