Serinde, just seen your reply.Serinde wrote:Sure, I can see that, but forgive me if I say that's short-term thinking. How long do you think internet prices will stay low when there's no real-world competition?
For me, either a project gets done at a price I feel I can pay, or it goes undone. I don't for one moment believe that the internet will stop competition. At the moment it is frequently quicker & easier to buy from the US than the UK. If the prices in the UK go up to a point where they are more expensive too to add on the worse service & poor delivery times, well, guess where I'll be buying from. My local shop is no longer just competing with the one down the road, it is competing with anyone I can find. If the 'added value' provided by the shop is worth the price differential, I'll buy, otherwise I won't. A 4x price differential is an impossible differential to give that level of added value, and the shop needs to realise it & do something about else it's their investment and their jobs on the line. It has happened in manufacturing, I can see it'll happen in selling. The best, most efficient & those with the best added value will survive.
OK, now onto what I wanted to write about.
I have a very, very stupid cat. He's already had a car accident while crossing the road 4ft from our house. After 18 months, he has decided to try crossing it again. So, this morning and afternoon I've been putting up Pea netting on the edges of our garage roof to try to dissuade him from jumping down into the road. Unfortunately we can't stop him getting up onto the roof as it would involve modifying a neighbour's building...
Regards
Richard.