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Hi Everybody,
Please accept with no obligation ,implied or implicit, our best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non addictive, gender neutral celebration of the summer solstice holiday practised with the most enjoyable traditions of religious persuasion or secular practices of your choice with respect for the religious / secular persuasions and / or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all.
We also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2011 , but not without due respect for the calendar of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make our country great (not to imply that New Zealand is necessarily greater than any other country) and without regard to the race, creed, colour, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee .
By accepting this greeting, you are accepting these terms:
This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wishers to actually implement any of the wishes for her / him or others and is void where prohibited by law, and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wishers. The wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year or until the issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wishers.
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That's the crux of the gray market challenge for companies - one region happily sells excess quantities knowing that dealers will unload what they can't sell to others for resale. The dealers like it because they get bigger discount, the region likes it because they get higher sales volume; so there is no incentive to try to stop it.
Other regions; dealers and the distrbutors see it as a loss of sales and, in Apple's case, increased warranty costs without the corresponding revenue.
For companies that own all the regional distributors it is not that big a deal as they can do transfer payments to keep the peace and in the end all the money flows back to one entity.
For companies where their regional distributors are independent companies it does become a problem since the distributors expect, and may have contractual requirements in place to ensure, the manufacturer protects their exclusive sales rights in a territory. One way to do that is to not offer a world wide warranty; another is to include in an a sales contract an agreement not to export the item from the country of purchase. Yet another is the use of rebates or other pricing promotions.
Of course, the internet has really put a strain on the regional distribution concept as customers can more easily compare prices and order from a seller almost anywhere in the world; making it harder to maintain different pricing structures. As long as manufacturers maintain different pricing structures people will use arbitrage to make a profit; which is a reasonable and intelligent response to such pricing.
In the end it is good for the consumer; as long as legislatures do not erect other barriers such as extending copyright protections to prevent the import of legally acquired goods; as happened in Costco v Omega.
PS - Thanks for the best wishes.
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The global trends are clearly towards opening up markets for global prices, and it is unlikely that manufacturers will succeed in curtailing these consumer rights in the future.
This is a very interesting and informative thread. But im now curious how it all turned out at the end for you? Im hoping for a happy ending... Please let us know.
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