shy about prices

@mahgister well, I disagree, based on my attempt to lookup 500 or so speakers. 

thanks @mlsstl sure sounds like a unique market that most people are not knowledgeable about

@curiousjim still, at some point, the prices should be revealed :)

It’s not LIKE car sales, right?

@mahgister I know nothing about marketing. But I know that as a consumer, I prefer to know the price before learning too much about a product.

@thecarpathian got it! :)

They probably know that a price would just confuse me....

@yogiboy yes, my wording may have been confusing, I am OK with dealer pricelists too, but they are just as hard to find. Many times it's a pdf from Turkey or Luxemburg from 2012.

@mlsstl point taken, that's what I often ended up doing. But is that "normal"?

@arion thank Mike, I sent you an email....

@benanders yes, it makes sense. I guess it’s a unique business in several aspects.

It sounds like we all had different experiences. 

@curiousjim last time I bought a car, I ended up on the ER. I wish I were joking. I worked myself up so much I had an panic attack. Now I prefer to live near public transportation

@jji666 I didn’t say "audition", I said lookup. So I could put it here:

https://speakerchoices.com

thanks Brad / @lonemountain  for your insight. I imagine that the process from design to manufacturing and selling is a very complex process. 

I don't know how complicated it is to keep prices updated, not just the technical aspects but calculating the prices as well. From the consumer's point of you, it's just unusual. Maybe the entire audio industry is unusual.

@lonemountain I totally get the model of prices to be shown on the dealer page. The problem I ran into: I go to the dealer pages from the manufacturer's page and 4 out of 5 times, it's a barely usable site, the information on the speaker is a link BACK to the manufacturer's site. Checkmate!

@lonemountain Yes, very true.... and the retail changes that affect how we buy and use audio equipment (covid/amazon/spotify/price transparency, etc) drives how manufacturers and dealers reach the customers.

What I see suffering is the low-end/budget segment. The price range where new customers would enter the hifi world and would eventually step up, e.g. BestBuy, Tweeter, local hifi shops that used to be a 10 minute drive in every big city. When I go to high end dealers, I see people arriving with 120+K cars and naturally they will get the special treatment. Going to amazon to browse 500-1000 dollar gear is not much fun. 

@tomic601 yes, that can be confusing (and disturbing). And can cause for example speakers from the UK to be cheaper in the US, than across the street from the factory

You cannot go after customs, they can do whatever they see fit to check your crates.

That's wild .I thought they could open anything. Damaging it is another level