How would you run an audio salon?

only sell components that i personally like. allow the customer to borrow a component for a reasonable amount of time. allow the customer to judge with his ears.
i would not attempt to influence, or give advice, except to help a customer avoid a mistake. i would not suggest that one component or stereo system is better than another. the customer would sell himself rather than a salesman selling the customer.

i wish there were such an audio salon where the customer was not influenced to buy a product.

the closest analogy i could think of is an audio store as a museum. come in and less.

my motto: we select , you decide.

i would have a problem selling a product i don't personally like. i think it's a matter of integrity not to misrepresent your principles.

i think it's better to cater to yourself first and the customers, second. you will get more respect from people that way.

if i go to an audio dealer and detect that he is a selling a product he doesn't like, i won't buy it from him, period.

there is too much salesmanship and hype and too much bull.

i wouldn't go to a chevy dealer to buy a cadillac.

so, if i carried brand x,y and z and a potential customer had no interest in x, y and z, the customer would shop elsewhere.

another example, i would stop patronizing a restaurant, if i observed the owner eating at another establishment.

i don't think it's about salesmanship. it's about letting the customer decide for hi/herself, without the salesmanship. the performance of a product should sell itself.

i guess i have a different philosophical approach than most people.