"Dave I used to deal with Hi-Fi retailers, I would prefer to have my balls cut off with a rusty knife than do it again. They take 50% of the money and even then you have to fight them to get paid. I would not treat my customers that way. Remember there is no dealer margin built into my prices, I sell to the end user at trade price. "
I agree Doc getting paid was in the days of Inca Tech a bloody nightmare, as to profit well we all need our kit seen and heard the NET is great but you can not compare sounds, sale or return maybe if every customer was honest but are they?
So the retailer offers away for people to compare and select systems without parting with money and sending it back and the time that can waste if it is not for your system or wife.
OK so who pays for the listening room? and maybe a good sale one a month may help after staff, rent, rate, electrics and all the other stuff shops have to pay for? and who pays for all the stock kept in good working order so you can compare, and from bitter experience at a shop in Yeovil some of that sits around for years, just because the owner had faith in the product. All this and more has to be paid for, the problem we have is not the dealers it is cheap and nasty import that have been seen on TV and marketed with huge sums of money, this can offer a good return so why bother with Inca Tech,Onix, NVA, etc
It is a shame Joe and Sue in the street never ever get a chance to be educated on what music should sound like because they have been brainwashed in thinking Bose, IPlayers, MP3, and crap radio station produce music and us little gem makers are not even noticed.
It bloody shit world where only Money and TV fame talk, because nobody wants to learn or question or think.
Sorry DQ grammar and spelling is crap.
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