Front door - Which provider is recommended?

Unfortunately only from Playmobil.
I guess I'll have to lay out a rusty nail board after all...

I have now seen a total of four promotional brochures from our door manufacturer, each from different years, which were completely identical except for the year. So this seems to be a trick used by door manufacturers.

As a window fitter, you can’t live just off first-time equipment for new builds, and especially the newspaper inserts or flyers delivered with the daily mail reach people in houses that are already finished. You walk through front doors every day, and they are the calling card of the house. But you can also keep postponing ordering a new one until tomorrow. Items with four-figure prices don’t just quickly end up in the shopping cart like a chocolate bar right before the checkout. A promotion or better PROMOTION or even better PROMOTION!!! can help here ;-)
Besides, front doors are a product to “hook” customers to finally replace all the windows the year after next. Passing on the front door almost without profit is therefore a popular sales tool. That the brochures occasionally fall into the hands of new-build customers—so what. At least you don’t have an old part to dispose of. Logically, for the window fitter this is a fixed institution in the “church year.” We have it noted as St. Türius in the calendar *LOL*

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The door is from HDE and costs about €1,500 more in comparable equipment (profile thickness even 2 cm less) than the door from Köster - so about €6,500 (without installation!).
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An inquiry revealed that the door with the same profile thickness as Köster would be almost €1,000 (!!) more expensive, because the door hinges would then also have to be larger. However, then there would also be three internal hinges. Köster's door apparently has only two of them.

An inquiry revealed that the door with the same profile thickness as Köster would be almost €1,000 (!!) more expensive, because the door hinges would also have to be larger sized. However, then there would be three hinges located inside. Köster's door apparently has only two of them.

... so in total, about €7,500 for the door from HDE :eek:

That brochures occasionally also end up in the hands of new construction customers - so what.

The dealer basically just threw that info out there. ;) But I found it interesting that from year to year, you really only change the year and the rest of the brochure just stays the same. You could basically make it a permanent offer... but that probably doesn’t work so well with the human psyche, which measures interest in things based on their perceived scarcity.

Scarcity (in conjunction with a supposed special offer) is definitely one of the most powerful tools in sales. This can be done with time or with (supposedly) limited quantities. I've dealt with this in my job and it's really amazing what effect it has. Although I wouldn't really count scarcity over a year...