Raleigh SA

[reteid]

thats mainly why I will never setlle for any of the two brands as listed in my first post. My common sense tells me, have your website up and running before starting to sell the product. They are also VERY hesitant in providing specs etc etc...anyways years ago there was an Afrikaans tv series, with the one oke having a motto that went like "mense wat dink hulle is d*nners smart is nie altyd so d*nners smart nie". With that, I rest my case

 

have to agree with Frank Opperman.Personaly i just watched the program because of the tight fitting tops the girl wore.

[RudoJ]

have to agree with Frank Opperman.Personaly i just watched the program because of the tight fitting tops the girl wore.

that girl has matured beautifully....

[MAESTRO's]

And of course, we can all just move on and look for someyhing different like the SALSA El Mariachi cro molly frame....any takers

[Karakoram]

 

Bearing in mind that this is Christmas shopping time,it just makes no sense! Is it poor planning, poor marketing or is the customers loyalty to the Raleigh brand taken for granted?

 

 

The 4 P's of marketing are: product (the right stuff), place (availability), price (value for money) and promotion (product awareness). To move product, all of the P's need to be in place almost simultaneously. Simple in theory. If not, damage control is required, otherwise sales will suffer. No wonder overseas on-line shopping is taking off in SA. On-line browsing is magic. Information, choice and availability is extremely attractively presented and instantly available. Price and after sales service, however still remains a slight problem.

 

Duties, exchange rates, shipping and taxes cloud the initial euphoria about an item's on-line sticker price, but not enough to completely deter. The thing is, once you've done your research you really don't want to settle for a similar local product, nor do you want to wait indefinitely for an answer about the item's price or possible local availability. Suddenly the item's on-line price penalty becomes bearable (up to a point), and it becomes very tempting to click to submit an on-line order. I could land an On-One Inbred 29er Swap-Out XT Pro (£915.8 = R12,707 sticker price) for about R16,862 (R4,155 shipping, duties, VAT etc.) I've heard that the XXIX+G will retail in the region of R17,000, but when and where will it be available near me? No information is available. The Inbred could be delivered to my front door within a week. Click