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Avoiding US dealer markups

Looking at a phono stage by a UK manufacturer. The US authorized dealer monopolist seems to mark up by ~30% from what I could buy this for locally. On a $2200 unit, that's not nothing. 

I am considering shipping it to a friend who is local and having them ship it to me, at a relatively small cost.

Seems like a logical approach. I could buy 25-50 LPs with the savings.

Am I missing something?

saulh

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

There have been one or two threads here in the last year discussing dealers/salespeople, primarily those in the USA. The prognosis was poor.

My modest observation at the time was that it seems to be not entirely due to the intemperate disposition of only the dealers. Read into that what you may.

 

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