daveyf
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| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... @mulveling I believe that not only has Benz micro ceased production, but so has Transfiguration! | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... @fleschleri am replacing my 21 year old Benz Ruby 2, and if it were possible to have upgraded in the Benz line, I would have. Unfortunately, I am told that Benz is once again, no more!This would have made my selection process a lot easier. Nonethe... | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? @orpheus10 Right now the Yen dollar exchange is pretty favorable to the dollar...what does that have to do with any of my points about acquiring the cartridges in Japan, except for re-enforcing them that is! Do you actually have any clue as to w... | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? @lewm where on earth do you get the idea that HP "seemed to prefer the shrill and clinical over the musical"?? HP was IMO one of the few audio writers who called it as he heard it....if he heard it as ’shrill and clinical’ that’s what he wrote, OT... | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? @orpheus10 Uhmmm...Last time I looked inflation wasn’t on the order of tens of percentage points in a period of just a very few years ( i don't know what country you live in, but certainly not here in the US)...as some of the cartridges in questio... | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? @edgewear What you propose makes some sense. It would be an interesting data point for the cartridge and/or arm buyer to relate to. However, it is not solving the issue, and may in fact contribute to more problems...why...because you are assumin... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... @harrylavo Very NICE post. Thank you for not posting the usual drivel about why are we discussing this subject etc.,I also read extensively HP’s work. He was one of the very few writers who generally called it as he heard it, as such I think you c... | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? Same old positions as usual on this thread, as on the thread I started about the cartridge nightmare. Plenty of people who don’t like the questions and positions posed by the OP ( for whatever biased reasons that they have)- and so they resort to ... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... @br3098 Sure, Mr. Dealer you can always start your own thread about how easy it is to sell high priced cartridges to less than sophisticated folks who are only too happy to buy anything from you...so long as the price is higher than what their nei... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... @dgarretson says he who works for big pharma. | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... @herman I guess we will have to agree to disagree. In my books IF someone pulls the wool over your eyes, then that is a rip off! How often do you believe that the seller’s of these Japanese cartridges disclose the fact that they are readily availa... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... @herman so if I am able to buy the very same cartridge at retail for 1/2 the price in Japan and the US dealer is asking for twice that price here in the states, having shipped over the cartridge at some enormous shipping price,(if you believe that... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... @herman I have two questions for you...is there any such thing as a 'rip off' in your world?- and if so...what does that consist of to you? | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... @alwynlarryv Your post made me laugh out loud! Are you certain that these folks are doing this! Seems that you are, LOL.Let's not talk about margins here....as lewm stated, well maybe we should just a little- as this is my thread...Let me state ... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... @ethiessen1. All good points. I have to believe that as the price increases with these cartridges, so do the margins. It would therefore seem highly appropriate to me that the manufacturers should incorporate some kind of program to allow home aud... |