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I started as a Dealer w/Garrett in '77 and their discount back then was 25%. That increased and about 1981 to '83 most Dealers were getting 30% from most manufacturers to about 35%. It was Tesoro, back in 1987, who moved up to the bigger Dealer Discount of 40%. Buy one at 35% off. Buy 2 or more and you got 38% off, and if you bought 6 or more you got 40% off the MSRP. At the same time, since we were at the busy early stages of 'mail order' discounting, they also restricted their dealers to allow a discount of no more than 20%, thus allowing a Dealer to buy at 40% off, sell at 20%off and end up with a 20% gross profit margin.Quote
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yup! i remember those days when whitey, i believe, gave 40% discount to dealers if they bought in "bulk" i don't remember the exact number, but think it was 10..40% was a tremendous incentive both to dealers, and customers.
"Back then" detectors didn't retail for very much, dealers usually sold at retail or maybe gave a 5% discount, and business was thriving because the metal detecting hobby and interest was growing. Detector prices started to just skyward with the Teknetics Coin Computer release in '83, other manufacturers followed and soon a lot of hobbyists couldn't afford to over-hyped and too expensive models.Quote
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the 'difference" was "back then" detectors were selling "well", and whitey could afford to do that..my brother delt "puke color" "garrett" out of his house in the 70's, and he mentioned he could get 40 cents on the dollar too with a bulk purchase. a lot of "morons" have arrived, and "insist" on digging' pennies out of a manicured park with a "sampson". any wonder why,the hobby is going extinct.
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The MX-5 wasn't an attempt to compete with the waterproof AT Pro. The MX-5 was, and is, a very decent performing model, and a bit hotter than the M-6. I used to keep it and another brand/model with me for Coin Hunting as I liked them more than White's MXT Pro which I also had and used at the time. The MX-5 out-performed the AT's just about anytime I did some side-by-side evaluations. The problems with the MX-5 was they rushed it to market w/o having a 'Lock-Trac' feature.Quote
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they attempted to compete with garrett by offering the mx-5,but they "screwed up" because it wasn't waterproof,and the at-pro is!
I sat right there at the factory to place my order and they could have shared that big discount info with me because I started out as a Master Dealer and had the $$$$ at the time to have placed an order to get a 40% discount.Quote
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my brother insists that both whitey,and garret t offered 40% discounts to dealers.their highest level discount.you had to buy a lot of instruments to qualify though
I think they dropped it, brought it back and dropped it again, briefly, then brought it back again. But I thought I saw a lower price on the M6 about a year ago compared to what I saw on their website yesterday. ???Quote
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the mx-5 is a good detector,and should have competed favorably with the at-pro,but it just did not,and was dropped from the line.unbelievably,they bring back the m-6 which was in the line up since 2006,and should have never been dumped in the first place.
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> The MX-5 wasn't an attempt to compete with the watQuote
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they attempted to
> compete with garrett by offering the mx-5,but they
> "screwed up" because it wasn't waterproof,and the
> at-pro is!
I sat right there at the factory toQuote
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my brother insists
> that both whitey,and garret t offered 40% discount
> s to dealers.their highest level discount.you had
> to buy a lot of instruments to qualify though[
> /color]
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the mx-5 is a good
> detector,and should have competed favorably with t
> he at-pro,but it just did not,and was dropped from
> the line.unbelievably,they bring back the m-6 whic
> h was in the line up since 2006,and should have ne
> ver been dumped in the first place.[/q
> uote]I think they dropped it, brought it back and
> dropped it again, briefly, then brought it back ag
> ain. But I thought I saw a lower price on the M6
> about a year ago compared to what I saw on their w
> ebsite yesterday. ???
>
> Oh well, I really wonder what's going on over ther
> e and who could possibly be the design engineer fo
> r anything that might come out and set some higher
> marks for them. Matter of fact ... who IS or ARE
> the engineers at White's these days? Anyone with
> any real background and smarts in electronic desig
> n?
>
> Monte
my "bro" sold detectors at 40% off.maybe he was just trying to be "nice" to people,or maybe he was just one "shrewd" business man,because he moved a 'ton" of equipment for real.
i stand corrected on the mx-5.monte is correct.whitey,for some god forsaken reason,never installed a "lock-trac"toggle,and it made a difference in the market place. maybe they should give "vince gifford" a little ring dingy,or even "rusty henry" i'm sure these two guys have untapped "engineering talent!".it's a little like the lottery!..ya can't win if ya don't play! ..i'm just sayin'
(h.h.!)
j.t.
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