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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 I lookup up the company homepage, I searched for pricelists, however out of date, I emailed the company - nothing.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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mahgister
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The point is about a marketing presentation without price indication...

Now that does not means that we are unable to look for the price... Anybody can for sure as you said ... But why not giving the price on the same page ? Thats the point of the OP ...

 

i have never, ever had trouble finding prices of any hifi loudspeaker that i needed, old or new... the power of the internet right at our fingertips, numerous search engines

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

mlsstl
1,441 posts
 

Often the easiest way to find the list price of a speaker (or amp/DAC/streamer/etc.) is to find a review of the product.  Just Google "[speaker brand/model] review"

 

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

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