Tom Sawyer
In the Trades
It means what I said, you don't have any experience with DIYers and do not understand what motivates them.
You have both but don't do well here answering questions.
National figures show 80+% of Americans have internet service. Research shows that more than 80% go online to research products they are interested in or wanting to buy.
Many millions of them then buy those products online. The biggest reason they do that is based on convenience and the time it saves them, and many will pay more for the product because of the convenience but, most price shop too.
Most people that contacted me and bought from me did so based on my posts that you and others whined about for years. The vast majority told me why they bought from me instead of another online dealer, or the local dealers or plumbers or drillers they had out to their house before getting online and finding my posts.
Now I'll leave you to come up with whatever reason you think they gave me but I'll bet ya get it wrong; as you have by saying it was the price. Hint... it's a five letter word but it ain't price although the online price comparison to a local dealer or plumber was mentioned frequently but... that price from a dealer or plumber is why many got online but it was not the most important reason, or why they contacted me and bought from me.
Actually I told them they were grossly unfair in comparing online pricing to local dealers etc. because we didn't have the overhead they had. And we passed the savings on to them while keeping our prices low because we were in tough competition with all other online dealers. And it was very easy for them to compare our prices while it was very difficult and time consuming to compare local prices because they couldn't get a price without having a salesperson or crack showin' plumber come out to the house first!
BTW, a fair percentage of my customers had a plumber do their installation. Most, although I strongly advised against it, had that plumber do the assembly also. I actually suggested using a plumber for the installation if I thought it was something the prospective customer couldn't handle.
I spent many an hour on the phone with know it all plumbers with questions or problems because they would not follow my instructions.
Ok, now what is your point? and more over.........other than you, who cares? LOL
BTW, I do pretty well answering questions here and if I bothered to save them I could show you many many PM's from folks that would rather get a straight no BS answer than have to wade through page after page of useless arguments and convoluted reasoning......like this thread LOL I don't think you have a clue how frustrating it is to the folks asking questions to have to read through all the nonsense. Funny also that it does not seem to happen much on the other forum threads on this forum. Funny also why it seems like every single screwed up thread has your name attached to it. Notice how all the rest of us here somehow manage to get along and treat each other with respect. Why do you suppose that is?
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