Ivconic,
You bring up some interesting points. It sounds like in your part of the world, there are real opportunities for metal detector manufactures. Reading your comments, I take it, that you are asking why the manufacturers are ignoring your market?
From a manufacture’s point of view. There are major barriors. Language, political, currency and cultural. All of these can be overcome, but at what cost? So manufactures concentrate on markets they understand with the lowest cost and risk.
You may be the answer to your own question. To have a local dealer network, you need a distributor/importer. You or someone has to become the importer/distributor. You know the language, the law, the banking system and shippers. You set up the dealer network. You put up the money to buy the first large shipment of detectors. The risk to the manufacture has now been shifted to you. You will be rewarded for your hard work and risk taking. That’s how it works, someone local, recognizes a need and fills it! Don’t expect Tesoro to send an english speaking guy to Serbia, to set up a network. He thinks Georgia is a state in the US. It takes someone like you with local knowledge and lots of money.
Interesting subject
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