Price paid for top end equipment

I paid list price for my vandersteen 5As last summer, was okay doing that, dealers have a tough row to hoe these days.

In 2004 I bought a Cary V12R stereo amp from the owner of a local store for 30% of list,He told me he marks up around 40% and gives deals like this to larger purchases. A year later I went back and got another one (because of the discount)at the same price. Visited the store a few years later for a sony sacd player and found it was sold to another owner and now discounts were very small. So bought the sony 5400 for a better discount somewhere else, everytime I go past this place no one is there. So you give people some kind of deal and sell more or no discount and sell less.

Dave_72 you are right dealers will wake up soon with the rest of us in the unemployment line if they think they can make 100% margin (and with cable lines even more!) if they do not give "normal" discounts. I've said it before and will repeat, there are dealers that give a standard 20-25% discount and even more if you but several items at once.

Yeah, I was a bit frustrated there, don't mind me. I do appreciate and respect high end equipment. And I do have the money for the most part, I finally just bought a set of $10000 speakers. But it takes most audiophiles months and years to save up, leaving most of us in constant debt.