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I appriciate everyone's input. I would like to add the following; We WILL be adding more to the website in terms of product. True, other sites 'Show' more products. However, we don't offer anything for sale that is not in our warehouse or store. Many online retailers depend on 'Drop shippers' to ship their stuff for them. What happens if the drop shipper is out of stock? The original merchant looks like an idiot because he accepted the customers order, charged his credit cardd, and now has to refund the customers card, contact the customer and explain it's out of stock, and in general look like a shitty operation. If you think this doesn't happen, look around at some radio sites that still offer items that havn't been available for 8 months!! I personally scour the net everyday. I know anybody who is anybody in this foolish business. We supply many online retailers with product through our wholesale division. For those of you that didn't know, we also have a wholesale division of Sparkys that supplies 48-50 small roadside CB Shops with merchandise. This website is only a VERY small part, but very important part of our business. With the viotility of the import market, many, many, many items that are produced overseas (94% of the merchandise in this industry) are experiencing very long import times due to diesel fuel prices. Cargo ships that used to sail from China with half a load stay in port until the plants have a full load ready to export to the USA. Currently with the Olympics in China the goverment of China has mandated certain plants to shut down several days a week to help with smog issues for the olympics. What does this mean fot the consumer in the USA?? Higher Prices and more out of stocks. Hopefully this will get better. Sorry for rambling, but this is an overview of why we don't list everything in the world in the CB Business on our site. We have to have it before we offer it for sale...bottom line. Anything else would be dishonest and we don't do business in that manor. As for adding 'Options' on the website for new radios, we won't do it and this is why; Everyone has their own preferences as to what they want done to their radio. For example...you buy a Galaxy DX-919 and you want an echo board installed. Great, we'll be happy to do it. BUT..I want to talk to you on the phone and tell you that by doing so, the Galaxy 2 Year Warranty is VOID. No matter if the failure of the radio has NOTHING to do with the echo board. This is just an example, but I hope you'll see my point. The Cobra High Power radios we do, we warranty because we are drastically changing the circuitry in them..these are the exception. I refuse to do a 'Generalized' modification 'Menu' for the reasons of the example shown above. We take great pride in our work, and handle all mods or custom builds on a case by case basis...and it's done RIGHT!! From the bottom of my heart I deeply value each and every customer and their business. However, if it's a web based only relationship with drop down menus you wish, there are many otehr online sites in which to puchase from. I only hope they will be there with support after the sale. Again, thanks for listining.
Sparky
OWNER-PART TIME TECHNICIAN-FLOOR SWEEPER
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