palerider wrote:of course, half the resmeds are *made* in australia and shipped up here... the other half are made close by there.
Yeah, I was thinking about that when I typed what I did but since it was a Respironics discussion didn't bring it up.
I know people have to make money to stay in business but geez do they have to make it all off one poor person.
Reminds me of when I was truck shopping back in 2000 for a brand new truck. I knew exactly what I wanted and I called up 3 dealers who I know had on the lot a truck that would meet my criteria because I had been on the lot and test drove what I wanted.
I called them up and said "you get one chance to get my business..give me you best cash price" for so and so.
Dealers number 1 and 2 came within $100 and to be fair the one with the $100 more had one additional feature that the other truck didn't have but it was a feature I didn't think I particularly needed (big mistake on my part on that choice ).
Dealer number 3...was $10,000 more for the same specs. I said WTF....when I said I have quotes so much less for the same thing I was told "well maybe you didn't know what you were driving and it wasn't 4X4." Hmm...tell me I don't know what I was driving when I can see the 4 X 4 button quite clearly. You can imagine how well that went over...I won't ever in my life give that dealership one dollar of my business.
Dealers 1 and 2 made money...I know that and accept it but they didn't try to make their profit goal for the month/week/whatever out of just me. Dealer #3 got greedy.
Same with cpap/apap machines...some places are greedy and they can get away with it and some are happy with less profit.
When I was first DME shopping for cpap I was quoted $2700 for ResMed S8 brick...that was their cash price....no mask or anything like that.
Now I know I had insurance and final cost wouldn't be that but they didn't know that. I just wanted to see if they were greedy or not. Greedy people don't earn my business.
I may have to RISE but I refuse to SHINE.
