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   now this is good

   

   Michal, Jan 24th, 2006 @ 12:41pm

   
   

   The market will have no problem sorting this one out. If selling supplements on the internet is profitable someone will do it. Those pseudo-hippy stores that charge shitloads to those wanting to relive the 60's will do fine too.

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   Good riddance

   

   Rikko, Jan 24th, 2006 @ 1:07pm

   
   

   That entire farcical "medicine" industry is a scam anyways. We're better without.

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   Re: Good riddance

   

   DocMenach, Jan 24th, 2006 @ 1:24pm

   
   

   To say that the Nutrinional Suppliment industry is nothing but a bunch of neo-hippies is way out of line. Last I checked, in addition to "hippies" using nutritional suppliments, so do bodybuilders, people losing weight, athletes, the elderly, pregnanat/breastfeeding mothers, and many others. In fact, at the Gym I work at nutrional suppliments are a very good revenue generator, and we dont exactly cater to "hippies."

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   Re: Good riddance

   

   Anonymous Coward, Jan 24th, 2006 @ 1:24pm

   
   

   That entire farcical "medicine" industry is a scam anyways. We're better without.
   
   yes, I agree with you that intelligent design is the way it all should stay!
   
   [/sarcasm]

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   Re: Good riddance

   

   scott, Jan 24th, 2006 @ 1:40pm

   
   

   The car stereo industry has been fighting this, too. Go to http://mobile.jlaudio.com/jlaudio_pages.php?page_id=111
   and see what one manufacturer has to say about internet sales.

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   As a retailer....

   

   Howard, Jan 24th, 2006 @ 1:40pm

   
   

   I can sympathize with the effort to keep the retailers from competing with each other on the web. The vendor fears that if he allows price competition on the web, he will 1) piss off the other retailers who don't want to sell on the web, who will then stop buying his stuff, and 2) give his product "commodity" status. Whether that's true doesn't really matter -- he doesn't want to take the chance. He is basically trying to protect his customers (the retail stores).

   You can pull this off if you have a unique product that has good demand; it's a bit harder for commodities. As a prior poster pointed out, the market will sort this out quite efficiently. As another prior poster pointed out, the nutritional supplements industry is so full of useless crap that we wouldn't miss them if they went out of business (they won't, unfortunately).
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   Violins and Accessories

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   No Subject Given

   

   haggie, Jan 24th, 2006 @ 1:41pm

   
   

   That's what happens when an RIAA employee quits to start his/her own nutritional supplement business.
   
   Probably afraid that if they sell it over the 'net, somone might buy it and then give it to a friend and then the supplement company would have to sue because the friend didn't buy his own bottle of the supplements.

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   Re: Good riddance

   

   Michal, Jan 24th, 2006 @ 1:48pm

   
   

   the athletes and etc... are generally a very different market then neo-hippies. This company seams to cater to the neo hippies.

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   Re: Good riddance

   

   Anonymous Coward, Jan 24th, 2006 @ 2:18pm

   
   

   they may have the idea that the desire and value of the product is based on the fact that it is only available in certain areas by certain retailers.

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    Lots of examples

    

    Sum Dum Guy, Jan 24th, 2006 @ 2:50pm

    
    

    A lot of companies don't want their products listed on the web. There's no particular rhyme or reason, since they simply end up losing sales to the companies who do list online.
    
    For example, Specialized Bicycles won't allow their retailers to show prices online. They'd rather you go in person to a bike retailer and get it. To some extent, they want to make sure you're fitted with the right size frame, but once you know that, who cares where you get it from?
    
    Even eye doctors don't always give you a copy of your contact lens prescription. Their claim is that can ensure quality, which most of the time is never an issue.

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    vitamins?!?

    

    Another Anonymous Coward, Jan 24th, 2006 @ 3:17pm

    
    

    If a company decides they are too good for the Internet, it's not like I don't have about a zillion other choices. Not online? No sale. What worries me about this article is that it suggests the EU and the WTO are actually pushing to restrict the purchase of simple vitamins!

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    Re: online items

    

    Rolex Lover, Jan 24th, 2006 @ 3:39pm

    
    

    Rolex

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    Re: online items

    

    Rolex Lover, Jan 24th, 2006 @ 3:40pm

    
    

    Rolex has had the same policies for years.

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    Re: No Subject Given

    

    Anonymous Coward, Jan 24th, 2006 @ 3:56pm

    
    

    lol @ haggie
    
    finally a decent contribution to this shitty (oops, i meant muddy) site.

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    Re: Good riddance

    

    Kasapo, Jan 24th, 2006 @ 3:58pm

    
    

    now, now; perhaps you should quell your sarcasm a bit...note that he says 'medicine INDUSTRY,' not just medicine. Have you watched TV lately? I haven't, but last I checked pharmeceutical companies were attempting to shove their drugs down the throats of the nation through advertising consisting of something like this: "Do you ever feel sad or in anyway unhappy? You may be depressed. Talk to your local pill-pusher (over-enthusiastic doctor) about Sulprema HDNXKLSKFJ today." Followed by a list of unattractive side-effects.
    
    The truth of the matter is that modern science isn't really sure what the net effects of many of the drugs we so willingly advertise...they just notice a correlation in experimental groups where some effect is witnessed that may seem beneficial to some people some of the time.
    
    Medicine: ok; Pharmillionaire (more like billion/trillion today) companies: evil greedy effects of the competition intrinsic to a capitalist society.

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