Avoiding US dealer markups

Check because after the dealers treated me like I do not exist when I want to spend a few hundreds of thousands I say why buy with these guys, when I have a dealer that my father used to buy from, and I have been buying for more that 28-30 years that treat my family very well.

You can ask for 110 and see. Maybe they will sell you one, and honor the warranty if you ship the unit back
. Import fees are nothing to the USA, I am from Spain and bought a house in Seattle, I bought from my dealer here 2 Techdas Aiforce 3 premium with 2 x SAT and 2 Kuzma, brought them to the USA, through a customs brokerage company with shipping, customs and brokers fees I think it was $9-$10k usa dollars. I don’t remember exactly because I shipped also a a pair of Avantgrade Duo XD, CH1 Phono in mono and it’s external power supply.

The only person to treat me good was the Acoustic Signature dealer in CA when I bought a Montana from him, the one that sold me the Tannoy’s was a joke, they sold me years old for new speakers, which I would not mind if they were kept in conditioned storage, but they were exposed to so much heat that the wax was all melted.

honestly I do not know how dealers in the USA keep on business

I am not saying all dealers because I do not know all of them. I am referring the the ones I "interreacted" with.

I called 2 times each, one before my email with exactly what I wanted and availability for well over U$400k  worth of turntables, tone arms and speakers, and the other call a few days later.

2 did not answer, the 2 that did, one asked me how does he know I will buy and asked for a deposit for the privilege of showing that I can afford it, I almost told him to run my CC  but  that is crazy ask, the other just brushed me off as if I was a child.  

When I got back home, I went and visit Xmain and Alexia my dealers and friends in Barcelona, I told them what I wanted and where to ship it over a couple of glasses of wine; they arranged everything that afternoon, charged my credit card, and in the evening we went for dinner with them and my partner. 

When the gear arrived to the USA they hired a gentleman to unbox and level the turntables, all I did was to connect the tone arms, get the stylus  in them align them and started to play music in about 8-9hrs. 

The only bad thing about all this is that my house in the USA is made of sticks, so it appears the floors are sinking... on the weight of the stereo system. 😕