Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:02:05 -0600 From: Fred Sturm <fssturm at unm.edu> : >> I don't know, but maybe this is where we here at SFSU have had it >> easy. The last time we purchased pianos (about 5 years ago) we >> simply got bids on Yamaha P-22's from three different dealers, and >> went with the lowest bid. As long as there are multiple bids and we >> take the lowest one - "purchasing" is satisfied that the mandated >> procedures have been followed. >In large metropolitan areas, this can work. In NM, we have usually >three local dealers bidding, each with different lines. It is possible >to solicit a direct bid from a manufacturer or distributor, but the >purchasing folks are happier if we use local vendors (and purchasing >rules tend to favor the locals, when you get into the nitty gritty). >It would certainly make my life simpler if I could decide to purchase >4 P-22s and 2 U-1s, or 4 UST-7s and 2 K-whatevers, or the equivalent >Hailuns or Sauters or Knabes. But I can't. >Regards, >Fred Sturm >fssturm at unm.edu Fred (and Patrick), Just for ha-has I went to the Yamaha website dealer locator, and input my old New Mexico zip code from the 70's-80s - 87571. It came up with dealers in Albuquerque, Hobbs, Clovis, (NM) Colorado Springs, Denver, Fort Collins, (CO) Lubbock, Amarillo, several other Texas cities as well as Oklahoma City, and several dealers in Arizona and Nevada. Apparently Yamaha has a very liberal idea of what constitutes a "Local Authorized Dealer". Since any Yamaha dealer can issue a warranty service voucher to any technician they trust, and Yamaha will send out a service team if necessary - there are no advantages to buying "local" (other than goodwill or politics). So I suspect that if you really have your heart set on purchasing Yamahas and nothing else, you could convince the "powers that be" to pull the right levers... Yamaha makes it easy... Regards, Israel Stein -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100830/bc18fbcb/attachment.htm>
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