I need to know how many strap style chaise lounges there are in the world?
Also how many hotels are there?
How many companies make strap style chaise lounges? |
Request for Question Clarification by
shananigans-ga
on
10 Oct 2002 21:25 PDT
Is a 'strap style chaise lounge' a banana lounge, of the sort sold in
camping and some homeware/furniture stores?
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Clarification of Question by
jacksaulnier-ga
on
11 Oct 2002 02:30 PDT
I am talking about chaise lounges that are found at Hotels Apartment
and Condo Complexes on Cruise ships. The standard aluminum 1"
diameter round tubing frame with vinyl straps crossing from one side
to the other if you go to USseating products here is the link
http://www.usseating.com/admirals/1431%20Admirals%20outdoor%20files/585%20DPI%20full%20pages/10.jpg
This is the type of chair that i want to know the number of in
existence and also how many manufacturers there are.
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Request for Question Clarification by
knowledge_seeker-ga
on
11 Oct 2002 08:46 PDT
jacksoulnier,
Surely you must realize that there is no way to tell how many chaise
lounges are "in existence" in the world today. If I bought one in
1997, how would anyone know whether or not I still have it? If a
company sold 3 million of them to hotels in 1997, how do we know how
many of those are still in use? And then you say "standard aluminum"
.. mine is molded plastic. Does that count?
Due to this one portion of your question, the entire question becomes
unanswerable.
The other parts of your questions *might* be answerable if you break
them out into individual questions with your parameters clearly laid
out.
#1 - How many hotels are there? where? Define "Hotel." Does that
include every little mom & pop motel? Just large chains? What about
Inns? Bed and breakfasts? Lodges? Overnight truck stops? If you are
talking about every little place, you can be sure there is no way to
count those world-wide. They come and go on a whim and in some
countries they are not required to register. There would be no
database keep track of them.
#2 How many companies make strap-style chaise lounges? This might be
easier to find, at least the large manufacturers. Perhaps you'd like
to post a seperate question asking for the top 3-5 manufacturers. Then
specify; do you only want the ones that make aluminum chairs? Not
plastic?
I'm not trying to be critical. I see you are willing to pay a fair
amount of money to have your question answered, which leads me to
believe that the numbers are important to you. But in order for you to
really get your money's worth from a marketing question you have to
understand exactly what data you are looking for, and then let us know
in detail.
Also, in order to get any part of your question answered, you can't
include an unanswerable portion because a partial answer is not an
option to Researchers. It's an all or none deal. :-)
So, as I said, I'm not being critical. I'm just trying to make some
suggestions to help you get the answers you are looking for.
Best of luck with your project.
-K~
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Clarification of Question by
jacksaulnier-ga
on
11 Oct 2002 10:01 PDT
how about a good estimate on the number of chaise lounges sold.. I am
developing a product that will fit the strapstyle lounges only.
I know that one company has made 150,000 US SEAT and want to know how
many companies there are like us seat for a rough estimate not
necessarily still in Existence but how many have been manufactured in
the last say fifteen years.
As far as how many hotels there are I saw on the net that there are
60,000 ww
then another day 100,000 ww but i have been told there are more. This
is only for ones with pools or chaises which is impossible to find out
but a total of all mom and pop major and all in between a rough
estimate is o.k. just there is a big difference between 60 and 100k I
need a close estimate.I know that your goal is usually concrete data
but in this case educated rough estimates will be perfect. Let me
know if you can help. If there are no answers do i still pay?
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Request for Question Clarification by
knowledge_seeker-ga
on
11 Oct 2002 15:12 PDT
Thanks for your clarification jack,
The only thing I'll answer right now is your very last question -- NO
you don't have to pay anything except the .50 listing fee until an
answer is posted in the answer space.
-K~
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Clarification of Question by
jacksaulnier-ga
on
11 Oct 2002 16:31 PDT
thanks for your help this service is great.
Jack
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Clarification of Question by
jacksaulnier-ga
on
12 Oct 2002 15:04 PDT
I wanted to let you know that on the number of hotels that over x
amount of hotels motels resorts will be sufficient for me there is now
way to know the exact I just need to get close and the higher the
better.
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Clarification of Question by
jacksaulnier-ga
on
12 Oct 2002 15:10 PDT
I am not sure if i did this service right because of what one of the
e-mails said. If you answer these questions are they 50.00 each or
50.00 for all? I figured for 50 I would get all three. I need the
numbers but I am a starving entrepeuner let me know. I can t really
afford 150.00 at this time so I might have to repost for lower value
and break them up. let me know before you start posting.
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Request for Question Clarification by
pinkfreud-ga
on
12 Oct 2002 17:20 PDT
You asked "If you answer these questions are they 50.00 each or
50.00 for all?"
Since you have bundled the three questions into one "package," the $50
(plus a 50 cent listing fee) covers all three. However, placing three
questions together in this way may make it less likely that you will
get an answer, since a researcher might not be able to answer all
three parts, and would not want to give a partial answer.
You might want to consider canceling this question, and instead
posting three separate questions, each priced in appropriate fashion.
If $50 is your ceiling, you could price each question at one-third the
value of your current, three-part question (this would make each
question worth $16.67,) or price them according to their importance to
you.
This would enable more than one researcher to help you, and you are
likely to get better service. Each of the three new questions would
have its own fifty cent listing fee, of course.
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