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		<title>Selling to retail stores AND catalogs</title>
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				<title><![CDATA[My experience with TSC (Canada) ]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[My experience with TSC (Canada) and QVC is consistent with tgroup. If the product is available elsewhere, they want to offer the best value to the customer - whether that is through bonus packs or additional accessories. Read the posts on QVC here ]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[My experience with QVC and HSN i]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[My experience with QVC and HSN is that they are generally very particular about where else your product is available. They usually want to be the only ones selling the product. That may not be the case with every category but in my dealings with them that [...]]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[If you don`t mind, I have a diff]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[If you don`t mind, I have a different channel question.&nbsp; In addition to catalog&nbsp;this product is a great fit for&nbsp;the home shopping networks.
Is&nbsp;it best&nbsp;to sell&nbsp;shopping networks like QVC or HSN first and then move in]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Great comments.&nbsp; Thank you ]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Great comments.&nbsp; Thank you very much.]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Hi-Lots of great information. We]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Hi-Lots of great information. We sell our products to the mass market including Wal-Mart, Walgreens, Kroger and others, but we also sell them on our own through our retail website. We sell our products directly to the consumers for about 30% higher]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Appreciate all the comments and ]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Appreciate all the comments and the good suggestions too.
 I don`t think there will an issue if the product is cheaper at retail. There is a cost for the customer to physically go to a store vs ordering online or over the]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Assuming that I sell both channe]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Assuming that I sell both channels at the same wholesale price and also
assume that the cataloger&nbsp;"I think" typically sells at a higher price
point, would the retailer see this as a conflict if the consumer can
purchase the product a]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Thanks both for the reply.&nbsp;]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Thanks both for the reply.&nbsp; Ethnicomm, you are absolutely correct about the importance of&nbsp;avoiding channel conflict.&nbsp; That`s the&nbsp;challenge here.
Ideally, I would like to sell both channels at the same time so that I can ramp ]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[
&nbsp;Even if retailers don`t ]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[
&nbsp;Even if retailers don`t ask what you`re doing in other channels, you don`t want the buyer flipping through catalogs as s/he is doing competitive analysis and finding the product s/he buys listed in the catalog. Often cus]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Jeff,You`re right - without know]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Jeff,You`re right - without knowing the industry and the product category, it is tough to provide good actionable advice. Even if retailers don`t ask what you`re doing in other channels, you don`t want the buyer flipping through catalogs as]]></description>
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