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Interest in an interconnect

Hello there, this is my first post here. My business friend and I have been kicking around the idea of starting an online interconnect "library" where it would be possible to rent interconnects. Our plan would involve a small one-time fee of perhaps 5 or 10 dollars, and would include your first rental. Thereafter, a one week checkout would also be about 10 bucks. Additionally, with each rental we would include a formatted page for you to fill out with your current system and a brief (1 paragraph or so) review of the sound with that particular interconnect and, ultimately, what was purchased; subsequent rentals of that interconnect would include these previous comments so that comparisons could be made.

Is there any interest in this sort of setup? What about pricing? If you have any helpful feedback, positive or negative, please post and let me know.

Thanks for your time!
ryanp100
garfish
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If you can get it "off the ground" I would be willing to pay a reasonable fee for auditioning ICs and cables. Why not also add power cords-- much audiophile interest in these.

However, the posters above provide some food for thought re actually getting such a venture started. The last time I got wires from the Cable Co. (3-4 years ago), they were charging a percentage fee to audition wires with the fee(s)to be applied against purchase. If you didn't purchase though, the rental fee was effectively fairly high,in the 5-10% of MSRP range. So it was only a good deal if you actually planned to purchase-- which I did.

Good Luck. Craig
mcne
113 posts
 
The Cable Company does not run it's lending for free. You pay 5% of the cable value by credit card which they will point towards the particular cable that you buy. If you do not buy a cable from them, you are out that money. And the Cable Company cells all their cables for absolute list price so the service is worth it to some but not for me. I
have never paid list price for cables. Not evem at a brickn'mortar shop. It is cheaper to purchase 3 or 4 different cables at the Gon and cell them back at the same price to someone else. I am only out of shipping. Dale
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megasam
798 posts
 
About the Cable Co, Craig is correct there is a charge of 5-10% (depends how good a cutomer you are) of cable cost to audition, but this can be applied to "any" future purchase of any product from Cable Co.

My experience is Cable Co will give a good discount to regular customers, I never pay list there.

Now all dealers carry certain cables that provide 30 day
trail return policy, but they catch on quick and know who is a serious buyer and who just wants to try several cables and not buy anything.
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