CleanSound
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Yes 25% is good, but it's not great. I will caveat that statement, everyone and anyone should aim for a great deal, but no one should expect to get a great deal. For that one particular speaker, I did end up getting more than 25% discount.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.
More on that story, that dealer actually did end up giving me a 5% discount. If they had matched the initial 25% discount I had from a different dealer, then I likely would have brought from them. But the spread was 20% and it's 20% on a a big ticket item nevertheless. Like I said, as consumers in a free market, it should not be the consumers' financial burden to carry non competitive business.