On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, David Scheidt wrote:
> A whole bunch of reasons. The credit terms offered by home depot may
> not be as favorable as a specialty supplier. The people at HD have no
> clue about anything they sell, while the specialty supplier knows
> their products. There's no guarantee that HD will buy more of the
> product when they sell out. The home depot doesn't have any interest
> in professional markets (they've sold off their wholesale building
> materials division). It's a pain to shop at the home depot. It took
> me ten minutes to buy a couple boxes of light bulbs the last time I
> was there. The local supplier will get you out hte door faster.
Oh, so in other words, they get better service at the wholesaler, but
don't want to pay for it?
Gotcha.
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David Hillman
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