In sales training getting the customer involved is a major bonus. So having you investigate the speakers and determine your stuff is awesome. Nice sale. I've done it oftentimes while juggling customers during a big sale. Give customers a CD or let them use theirs and play with gear until I return. Some people really like that and others not so much. It's a double edged sword but it still goes as, "Get the customer involved."
It's going to get harder and harder to do. Brick and mortar stores are closing down left and right, maybe not during COVID but definitely true as a trend over the years.
It is actually a great deal because the dealer is also getting a discount on their cost. So whatever discount you negotiated before, you can negotiate on the new cost basis. Maybe not quite as much since there isn't as many dollars involved but definitely a great deal and better than before.
I hope anyone who does that, proceeds and buys it from the same dealer. It would be quite improper to then go and buy it discounted online or whatever.
So what were they???
I agree. At the least go back to that dealer and confirm and clarify the price for the stuff. Give them a chance to meet or beat your lowest price quote.
I agree, I have always disliked the browsing locally and buying online thing. Even if I don't buy at that time I get the salesman's name incase I decide to buy later. I've worked commissioned sales before.
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Vegas is the same. 5 dealers, not one carries the products in the store. Closest store is in Phoenix, 300 miles away! Vegas may not be Podunck... but it is a vast wasteland for 2 channel Hi Fi. Anyone that has been to Vegas recently knows that snake oil is the city's life blood... in Hi Fi... and everything else sadly. The days of a good bet are long gone forever. Do we have an answer as to where we can find the Be line on sale?
So this is a pattern? If Seattle and Las Vegas (besides Germany...) don't have dealers who display and sell Revel anymore: is this brand going to die?
Harman UK only sells M16 through dealers, nothing else. I was told by them they don’t even do that anywhere else in Europe. I bought my Salon2 pair via a friend in LA and imported myself.Confirmation for German customers: I called Harman Deutschland and I was told, that there are no authorized dealers for the brand (Hell, I had to literally SPELL the name "Revel" to the call center agent
I really don't understand their business politics: at least they abandone a market of nearly 85 million people...
They opened a ticket and I should receive a call from someone who can explain this or even better who knows a way to purchase Revel speakers out here in the dessert
If you go to a dealer to physically touch, see and hear any gear, you should ALWAYS give that dealer an opportunity to give you their best price. Anything else is simply no cool.
If the dealer will apply the dealer discount on top of the manufacturer discount, then yes, absolutely that is a GREAT deal. Which implies all those who are thinking about buying the Be line need to make sure you get >25% deal.
I've given/gave discounts on speakers all the time back in the day. My goal was to avoid price protection during and after sales. So I dickered with the customers all the time and gave them the minimum sale price that I knew would be a dollar or two from the occurring every 3 months sale prices. It was enough I think and to take more would have been being greedy. I ran about 34% to 35%+ margins at the end of the year(s) and set the record for highest average profit margins for the chain. I think that's fair to all involved but to expect full pop on all the gear is not realistic in my opinion. The expense of operating a large business like that and purchasing the property etc I suspect ran into the high 20% range. So a few percent of profit for the house is all that was left. But it's big business and like I said that is owning the property. 25% discount on speakers is veryy good.
MSRP is one of the main reasons I eventually went online (Internet Direct) and then DIY. MSRP basically = sucker tax. Just a good way to scam an unaware customer. If that's any part of your business model, why would anyone want to shop at your store?! Besides, what's the real price? Fair price for the business and customer? Is it 5% off? 15% off? 30% off? Why is it complicated to know the price of the item? So they have an opportunity to rip off everyone to some extent? Internet Direct; they have the same prices for everyone. Seems fair and simple right? Why is scamming part of B&M model?
