Re: Shop Around! Use the Internet! Mail Order Everything!
Same goes for home electronics. DO NOT, I reapeat DO NOT plan on making money in home electronics, despite the surge in sales of high-profit HDTVs.
The internet and cheap, fast shipping have killed the "little guy" to a greater degree than even Ballsmart, Worst-Buy, and mega-dealer-monster-lots.
Those of us who are turned off by the slimmers at the mega-dealer-monster-lot are the same ones who are willing to take a little inconvenience to save some cash-ola... It's a vicious cycle, (but not the same way a GSXR1000 is), and the only way it's going to stop is for the bargain seekers to realize what they're doing and stop it.
Either that or shipping will have to suddenly get MUCH more expensive (which given gas prices might happen) or the Gov'ment institute a federal sales tax on mail order items, and make it higher than any state sales tax (won't happen)...