Charge for TT setup?


I'm upgrading my TT and am looking at a VPI Classic 3 which retails for 6K. The dealer wants another $100 to take the cartridge off the old table and put it on the new one.
I'm thinking at 6K set-up should be included but I'm not very knowledgeable. Is this a standard practice? Or is it free only if I also buy a cartridge from him?
Thanks
rockhead

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This dealer is making over $2k profit on the table. He's being a chazer. And you knw what they say about pigs? They get slaughtered.

In the county where I live there no longer are any hifi dealers. We had one- carried excellent gear too. But he nickel and dimed customers, collected sales tax on magazines (not taxable in my state) lied to at least one customer i know who had a cd player ( bought from this store for $2k) that needed repair (he said it was not repairable) and offered to sell him another cd player (the cd payer was fixed by a tech who found one bad solder joint) and drove himself out of business. I was glad to see his store go.
The OP's dealer is either begging to go out of business or agorant enough to think he's the only vpi source.

Doesn't a 40% profit margin mean you are supposed to receive value for that money? Isn't the argument that brick and mortar stores is that they provide service? This guy isn't.

Walk away and watch him come after you.