shy about prices


I assume a lot of you are in the industry and maybe you can answer this: why is it so hard or impossible to get pricing info for speakers?

I received a lot of suggestions for my speaker list to include more brands and I tried. I lookup up the company homepage, I searched for pricelists, however out of date, I emailed the company - nothing. Why are companies "hiding" the prices of their products they intend to sell?

This is not a generalization, I don’t mean to conflate companies with user-friendly and informative web sites (~30%) with the mystery ones (~20%). And the rest (~50%) are OK/could be better.

grislybutter

Showing 2 responses by curiousjim

Most often dealers can’t advertise anything but list prices, for fear of losing the line. For.  But if you call or stop in, many times they might open a box and then sell them to you as “Open Box”.

The. There are the take it or leave it people….

@grislybutter 

Don’t get me started on buying a car!  Long story, but they tagged on a $1500 charge and told us to bend over and pay it! And no it was not a destination or paperwork charge.  They were there as well!

Grrrrr!