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What about the notion of VALUE???? If one has a knowlegable dealer (as I've had--two actually), it can save a person time AND money by not having to first purchase, then empirically test a list of products in the quest of meeting one's own sonic criteria. Initial purchase price becomes less of an issue if long term satisfaction (and thus less component turnover) occurs. Also, the HASSLE FACTOR goes way down.

This is not to suggest that one should have blind faith, either. The above points apply ONLY if the dealer is:
1)totally honest, both with respect to pricing and with respect to sharing their blunt opinion (good or bad, and in detail) about products; 2)smart, experienced, knowlegable and familiar with your personal sonic tastes, and 3)is selling items which have a great price to performance ratio.

Fiddler,
1) Given the large number of legal precedents, why is this not common knowlege?
2) Why is it that enforcement of this law (or statute, or rule, or regulation or order, or whatever it's called) is seemingly done on a complaint-driven basis?
3) Why are some of the compliance orders issued by the FTC given a five year time limit?
4) In the Chrysler case:
-----a) Was the dealer association the target of a complaint by Chrysler because of the threatened boycott, or were the dealers the plaintiffs?
-----b) What were the terms of that settlement?
-----c) Did Chrysler have to change its vehicle allocation restrictions or not?

Northwoods_maine,
EXTREMELY well said, especially the concept of VALUE.