sherwindu wrote:
"Rosalie B." wrote:

sherwindu wrote:

You are a most pedantic fellow. You also have an annoying habit of straying
from
the true subject line. Not impressed by you Lincoln quotations.

Sherwin D.
Dave wrote:

On 20 Jun 2006 10:47:38 -0700, said:

Your idea of a conglomerate and mine are
different.

How many legs does a sheep have if you call its tail a leg?
[Attributed to A. Lincoln]

You all seem to be an annoying fellows who can't integrate data no
matter how many times and in how many different ways it is presented,
hoping that you will 'get it'..

Since it seems beyond you - what he was doing was pointing out that
the definition of conglomerate is "A corporation made up of a number
of different companies that operate in diversified fields."

Just having a very large company does not make it a conglomerate.
Your idea of a conglomerate is wrong - it is the same as calling the
sheep's tail a leg.

Yes, but who really cares when that was not the original essence of the
original message. It's called going off the subject. If I wanted my english
corrected, I would go to rec.betterenglish. It bugs me that when a question
or issue is raised, people go off on a tangent and the real issue never gets
addressed.

He wasn't correcting your English - he was correcting the idea of the
definition of conglomerate. If he were just correcting your English,
he would have said that the appropriate phrase to describe West Marine
and the effect they have on the chandlery markets was 'monopoly'.

Since we were discussing a large corporation which sells marine
products which was incorrectly calling a conglomerate, it was not off
topic here, but your remarks about Lincoln WERE off topic.

If tangential remarks bug you then you'd do better to go to a
moderated group or to get out of this venue altogether. I find it far
worse when folks engage in protracted slanging matches that are ON
topic.

Didn't West get rid of their "new" CEO that took over maybe 4 years
ago? He looked like a disaster in the making... every company he did
that for before went under not too long after he left.

I went into sticker shock a bit more than a year ago. Went in to buy a
quart of 3M's Finesse-it polishing compound. $50!!!!!!!!!! plus tax. I
went on the web and bought it from an auto body supply place for $25
delivered, no tax. I used to price shop only for big ticket items, but
now, I look on the web for almost everything that I don't have to have
right now.

I do agree they have a great return policy and selection, but the
prices are just killer!

Rosalie B. wrote in
:

You all seem to be an annoying fellows who can't integrate data no
matter how many times and in how many different ways it is presented,
hoping that you will 'get it'..



Isn't that why we like to hang out in and around BOATS?....(c;

"boomerswims" wrote in
ups.com:

When you do please let us
know so that we may fix our mistakes.

Hell, that's easy. Just price the items at the retail price in the first
place, negating the necessity for us to search the net for the retail price
before going to the store to play "Price Match Game" in the first place.

It reminds me of the Tehran Baazar where the price tag is about double what
he really expects to get for it after the haggling has gone on
interminably....

Retailers are playing a NEW price match game, now, but I'm not sure about
WM. The same Gateway notebook computer at Best Buy now has a different
model number, only available at Best Buy stores, than the Circuit City
Gateway notebook, only available at Circuit City stores. Even though it's
exactly the same computer, no price match is necessary as it's not EXACTLY
the same model number any more. On the bottom of both of them, it says,
Model MA3 on the Gateway label. At CC, they call it MX6438. I'm typing
this on one, now.

Better stainless screws that the head doesn't twist off of like West
Marine's are half price at True Value Hardware.....Why?

Keith wrote:
Didn't West get rid of their "new" CEO that took over maybe 4 years
ago? He looked like a disaster in the making... every company he did
that for before went under not too long after he left.

I went into sticker shock a bit more than a year ago. Went in to buy a
quart of 3M's Finesse-it polishing compound. $50!!!!!!!!!! plus tax. I
went on the web and bought it from an auto body supply place for $25
delivered, no tax. I used to price shop only for big ticket items, but
now, I look on the web for almost everything that I don't have to have
right now.

I do agree they have a great return policy and selection, but the
prices are just killer!

How about their 2 oz bottle of Hose Lub (Joy detergent) that sells for $3.99
krj

Independent marine stores will match West's prices and usually beat
them. Repeat customers get an even better deal. When they don't have an
item, they'll dig around in the manufacturers' catalogs and order
directly. West can't or won't do that.


We can order directly for you. Many times we have to do special orders.
Especially, from sierra for engine parts.

"boomerswims" wrote in message
oups.com...



Independent marine stores will match West's prices and usually beat
them. Repeat customers get an even better deal. When they don't have an
item, they'll dig around in the manufacturers' catalogs and order
directly. West can't or won't do that.


We can order directly for you. Many times we have to do special orders.
Especially, from sierra for engine parts.

I have used the special orders department a couple of time recently to
purchase items that were not available locally and not on the West Marine
shelves. Very smooth transaction.

Something that has not been mentioned is the West Advantage which gives you
back something like 15% on your purchases. May not offset the higher prices
but it helps.

Larry writes:

The same Gateway notebook computer at Best Buy now has a different
model number, only available at Best Buy stores, than the Circuit City
Gateway notebook, only available at Circuit City stores.

This trick is as old as retailing.

Retailers are playing a NEW price match game, now, but I'm not sure about
WM. The same Gateway notebook computer at Best Buy now has a different
model number, only available at Best Buy stores, than the Circuit City
Gateway notebook, only available at Circuit City stores

This is not a new game. Consumer electronics folks have been doing this for
several decades.

"Rosalie B." wrote:




He wasn't correcting your English - he was correcting the idea of the
definition of conglomerate. If he were just correcting your English,
he would have said that the appropriate phrase to describe West Marine
and the effect they have on the chandlery markets was 'monopoly'.

I am not arguing the correctness of the term conglomerate vs. monopoly.
Perhaps monopoly would have been a more descriptive term, but why
harp on this.



Since we were discussing a large corporation which sells marine
products which was incorrectly calling a conglomerate, it was not off
topic here, but your remarks about Lincoln WERE off topic.

I think they were off topic since this is a boating forum and calling
West a conglomerate or a monopoly doesn't change the reality of
the problem of a single company controlling most of the retail outlets
to the boating public.



If tangential remarks bug you then you'd do better to go to a
moderated group or to get out of this venue altogether. I find it far
worse when folks engage in protracted slanging matches that are ON
topic.

Does that go for your protracted defense of this linguistic expert?

I think I will just ignore your advice, since nobody appointed you
as the chief advisor of who should and who shouldn't post here.

Unfortunately, there are no decent moderated boating forums that I
know of. Moderating a forum only makes sense when the poster is
completely off the subject. In this case, the poster just deviated from
the issue to go down his preferred path, never addressing the original
idea being presented.