victorcastro1 Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 Not sure where else to talk about this, so...Expomusic just happened last week in São Paulo, the biggest music expo in Latin America, and the big news presented on the Line 6 stand was... The James Tyler Variax. Not even kidding, you can watch it on YouTube. Local distributor has a website, Facebook page, and there's nothing about Helix or any other product launched after a year ago. I've tried to contact them multiple times and got no response at all. This is standard over here, and it's really frustrating. I'm just trying to make this known hoping that Line 6 does agree this is not the way it should be done and try to make the local distributor get up to speed, or change it to another one willing to do it right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toasterdude Posted October 4, 2015 Share Posted October 4, 2015 Line6 needs help in latam. I remember a few years back when POD HD500 was 400 more than competing Boss product. I have years of experience selling into latam and you NEVER want an exclusive distributor unless you know them very well and they are focused on making sales goals. With the brasilian import taxes and duties, a product can cost 50-80% more in Brasil. Problem is when manufacturer is not on top of what it actually costs, the local exclusive distributor can raise street price to whatever he wants and make the extra profit. Once that happens, he could care less about volume. Instead of making say $50 on each POD HDhe sells he makes 450. He could care less if he sells 80% less. That leads to not being on top of things like Helix being released. It is all about numbers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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