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 I lookup up the company homepage, I searched for pricelists, however out of date, I emailed the company - nothing.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

Always sell the product first. Point out all the great features and get them interested/excited. This will help justify and prepare you for the big price tag they're about to hit you with. 

 

 

 

Perhaps because the prices are so out of whack with reality that they don’t want to scare customers away?   Case in point, I bought my GE Triton Refs before they were on showroom floors  for $8K. The retailed for $8.5K.  3+ years later, the same exact speakers were selling for $12,500.00;@ pair for the same exact speakers with no changes!   Now they are are on sale for $9K probably because they are phasing them out.  There is no way I would have bought them at $12.5K.