Price War!!

today was a fantastically busy day, because of something really interesting that happened yesterday. The story's like this, a few car audio companies(lets call them conglomerate A) decided they have had enough of one other company(lets called them AE, heh heh), and decided to wage some sort of a price war on the latter.

they brought in one of the main brands that AE is(was, now) carrying exclusively, and decided to sell them at LESS THAN HALF of the price that AE is selling. if u know your economics, its obvious that in a price war, the only party that gains in the end, is us consumers=), and as a consumer, this naturally aroused my interest.it was a pity i got wind of the whole thing only around 1500hrs today. i made a few calls, and naturally, all the good stuff were all sold out. me and a fren of mine went to bukit batok,called places in Geylang, Toa Payoh and another one at Ubi, before we learnt there were 2 amplifiers left at one place in Serangoon. needless to say, we rushed down and snapped up those two pieces, which incidentally, also happens to be the last two.

i dint really care much about the amplifiers, for the obvious reason that i've already gotten mine; but i was reasonably interested in the speakers, which costs about a third of the price i can get at AE, and i could use some new and better speakers than the Focals i have now. now i'm waiting for new stocks to come, and hopefully i don't get played out.

IMO, its really cool when companies and distributors decides to get personal and put pride and 'face' over monetary gain. i mean, we people get to sit back and watch the onslaught, and if we're lucky, know the right people and push all the right buttons, we might get some kickbacks too. i'm really waiting to see how the whole episode will unfold.maybe there will be a twist tomorrow, u'll never know...