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Factory Direct: What does it mean?
MarKee:
I work at a Marquis factory store, but we don't market ourselves as being "factory direct". I do explain to customers that we are backed by Marquis Corporation and it's parent company Wexco, therefore we have a significant financial backing and will always be in business to service them and their spa. We are the retail location for Marquis in the Salem/Portland area in Oregon...so when people come to the factory looking for a spa, they are referred to our stores. Our prices are usually not any better than an independent Marquis dealer on the east coast, we are an example for most Marquis dealers of how our spas can be sold. We do have a factory outlet store in Salem that has a reconditioned units that have come back from the field, that is the only store we market as "factory direct reconditioned spas".
Spatech_tuo:
--- Quote ---we are backed by Marquis Corporation and it's parent company Wexco,
--- End quote ---
I thought Marquis was employee owned, I hadn't heard of Wexco.
Mendocino101:
It is Employee owned...they were owned by Wexco but it was purchased from them sometime ago....
East_TX_Spa:
THEY ARE THE MIDDLEMAN. WE ARE THE MIDDLEMAN.
But we don't claim that you'll save thousands of dollars by buying from us.
Anyway, life's good around here so I guess it doesn't really matter much in the overall scheme of things. :)
Terminator
Mendocino101:
I do know not I guess it how you look at things...I think most of here purchase our chem's though a distributor not directly from say Leisure time as example to me that is a middle man but I think most of us buy our spas Factory direct...I think it is misleading in the way this dealer is promoting it.....or I guess if we are the middleman we are the first middle with spas and the third or fourth with other things..... ;)
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