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--- Quote from: kaz911 on May 09, 2017, 09:36:57 pm ---Many western companies was not aware of that when they handed out distributorships in the early days when they did not count the UAE market for anything. And if the Emirati was smart and registered his distributor rights - it is very hard for the western company to get rid of the distributor unless there are very serious breach of contract.
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Not just UAE, but generally it's very hard to bypass local distributors in Middle East region, they are very protected. Many influential companies have tried in the past 10yrs since the market is into premium products only to go as far as a representative office, i.e. marketing influence and better insight for more accurate sales forecasts.
Rich@RohdeScopesUSA:
--- Quote from: GameProgrammer79 on May 09, 2017, 08:58:20 pm ---hi Rich, I wanted to buy a RTB2004. Contacted local R&S sales many times. When I could finally reach out to someone, they directed me to a small company. R&S sales can't sale it to me :rant:. The quotation I received from small company for the base model is almost $600 more than the recommended market price in Europe and in US :wtf: :clap:
Btw I'm live in sunny Dubai.
I am not at all happy with the R&S sales here, upset with the way they treat customers. I am skeptical about the after sales support as well. On the other hand Keysight distributor was really easy to reach out, they were transparent with their pricing as well. They also sent me a price which is reasonable about 10% above the price in US / Europe assuming they import from Europe.
I know you are looking after US and Canada, probably you can direct my query to the right person. Probably you can direct my query to right person in R&S sales who would give me a reasonable quotation.
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Sorry for my slow response. In general, this definitely wouldn't be my area of expertise and it sounds like there are some unique items for the Middle East (based on the posts of the other folks), but I'll see if I can find anything else out for you as well. And sorry for the trouble :-\
-Rich
GameProgrammer79:
--- Quote ---I had same experience with R&S when I lived in the UAE :) both indirect AND dealing direct with the German HQ looking after the Middle East.
But in general the UAE - most imported products are overpriced by 20-30%. It is mostly due to the way the UAE protects "distributors" - that means they can charge more or less what they want because there will never be competition on the same brand. (In UAE to be an official distributor of a product you have to hold a UAE Passport or company have to be 100% Emirati owned)
Many western companies was not aware of that when they handed out distributorships in the early days when they did not count the UAE market for anything. And if the Emirati was smart and registered his distributor rights - it is very hard for the western company to get rid of the distributor unless there are very serious breach of contract. But now it means little competition and prices well above even European prices incl VAT despite (still?) no VAT and only 5% import duty.
I therefore learned to import from the USA and found the most efficient "trade routes" with shipping agents.
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Ah I now know the true story.. yes this is something cant be corrected. But as you hinted, it is perfectly fine to import things of interest following local rules. I bet even after paying the import duty (ideally import duty should be free as I work in free zone) of 7% still it will be cheaper than local prices. Do you know if R&S provides global warranty ? probably it is a question for Rich :)
Rich, do you know if R&S products specifically RTB2004 is covered under global warranty ?
GameProgrammer79:
--- Quote from: Rich@RohdeScopesUSA on May 10, 2017, 01:54:45 pm ---
--- Quote from: GameProgrammer79 on May 09, 2017, 08:58:20 pm ---hi Rich, I wanted to buy a RTB2004. Contacted local R&S sales many times. When I could finally reach out to someone, they directed me to a small company. R&S sales can't sale it to me :rant:. The quotation I received from small company for the base model is almost $600 more than the recommended market price in Europe and in US :wtf: :clap:
Btw I'm live in sunny Dubai.
I am not at all happy with the R&S sales here, upset with the way they treat customers. I am skeptical about the after sales support as well. On the other hand Keysight distributor was really easy to reach out, they were transparent with their pricing as well. They also sent me a price which is reasonable about 10% above the price in US / Europe assuming they import from Europe.
I know you are looking after US and Canada, probably you can direct my query to the right person. Probably you can direct my query to right person in R&S sales who would give me a reasonable quotation.
--- End quote ---
Sorry for my slow response. In general, this definitely wouldn't be my area of expertise and it sounds like there are some unique items for the Middle East (based on the posts of the other folks), but I'll see if I can find anything else out for you as well. And sorry for the trouble :-\
-Rich
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Thanks for looking into my query .. :) ^-^
fonograph:
this is not oscilloscope question but I will try anyway.The HMF2550 arbitrary function generator,if I have PWM carrier,and I want to module it with sinewave,what is the highest freqency that modulating sinewave can be? Also what is the maximum PWM carrier freqency?
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