Negotiate good price

This is the exact reason that I do not go to visit dealers to waste their time and I manufacturer audio products and know the dealers personally.

I don't understand what price you were looking for as the audio sites are typically used components.  Were you looking for them to match used prices?  How would that work with you buying a car?

BUT the sales person could have simply asked what exactly are you looking for?  He then could have said this is the price for those pieces.

Recently a potential customer heard my phono stage in his home for a trial period.  After two weeks I needed to get it back so other people to hear it.  He told me that it was amazing and blew away his current reference phono stage.  He then came to my house with some of his real-to-real equipment for my partner to repair.  He heard my system and asked about the "best price" I would see the phono stage for.  The parts alone cost me (at my prices) $2800.  He wanted me to sell it for $3000.  It just beat the crap out of his reference phono which was over $8000 or more.  I do not get insulted with these types of people but I tell them thanks but no thanks.

Happy Listening.

  

Ouch. You tried to sound like you were in control and they dissed you like a bum. They’re probably turning over kit with five figure net profits and don’t need or want your business. I hate that high-end snob bs though and wouldn't give them the time of day for that rudeness.

You have no idea who they are or what the situation was, as you weren't there.

then you project into it and hang these people without knowing a single thing.

You're kidding us right? Right?

tubebuffer, very well wrirtten treatise. Although, you describe yourself as a hard-ball negotiator. You have your' right for that, but why complain and more so, show that tou were shut down by professionals? 

my sister, maybe third or fourth best audio salesperson all of Kazakhstan says a tweeter in the hand is worth four in the bush..

Let us cease with the troll