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 I lookup up the company homepage, I searched for pricelists, however out of date, I emailed the company - nothing.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

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tomic601
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@lonemountain in a prior life i built n sold and delivered a few freighters.. from 737 up to 747. You are correct in general. My point was usa manufacturers exporting may have a global price set by the higher international costs and zero ( or very close to it ) sales in the usa happen at that global price…. walk in the usa dealer door for an instant discount…. sometimes 20-30%…. and then customer is disappointed to learn that a competing home country product ( including cabinets made in the USA ) are not sold at the same % off…..

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thecarpathian
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Welcome to the intricacies of the global market!

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lonemountain
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@tomic601 

tomic 601- arranging a simple global price structure is quite difficult as it the same exact problem you describe accurately above applies to any business in their home market.  So a German company can sell for less in Germany while end users in the US assume the US dealer is ripping them off!   
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It’s simply marketing. If prices were upfront, the product may be ruled out if too expensive. But, if the customer dives into the product benefits there’s a chance that the customer may raise their budget to purchase if motivated enough - increased chance of purchase. And yes, one often has to look a bit to find the price on pricy items.

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