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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 I lookup up the company homepage, I searched for pricelists, however out of date, I emailed the company - nothing.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
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yogiboy
5,701 posts
 

In order to find prices you have to find an online retailer that sells the speaker. Most manufacturers very rarely give the price.

Case in point:

https://store.acousticsounds.com/index.cfm?get=results&searchtext=harbeth

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gdaddy1
135 posts
 

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. 

 

 

 

grislybutter OP
3,107 posts
 

@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.

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curiousjim
4,756 posts
 

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….

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roxy54
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I find speaker prices by looking for online reviews or just asking google.

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