japarker24 wrote:
Tom A. wrote:
Thanks Gerard. I guess paraphrasing Mark Twain's famous quote might be appropriate: "The report of my (company's) death is greatly exaggerated!" ;-)
Unfortunately, it appears that the confluence of the "share the ride" promotion and the PON announcement encouraged some folks (perhaps with an axe to grind?) to pop up and take some pot shots...
BTW, my impression of the sales of Cervelo at our local shop (a relatively small retailer) are that they are fairly healthy, even without any "share the ride" participation. In fact, I was in there yesterday and was told that they'd sold at least 5 to 6 S5's in the last week alone (none of them part of the promotion either).
It does not impress me that a bike shop "sold 5 to 6" of arguably the hottest road bike on the market right now in the week that includes Christmas. In fact, that seems a little disappointing to me.
Ummm...considering that it's, like I said, a SMALL shop (in a SMALL market), the owner is out of town, his lone employee has been managing the store by himself, AND they've only been open 3 days out of this week (as of yesterday when I popped in)...I'd say that was a pretty healthy rate. Especially considering, as I also said, none of those sales were the result of the "share the ride" promotion.
But, maybe that's just me...
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