In the market to purchase a pair of monitors and searched on eBay for HS7's. Compared to many brick and mortar stores which are listing it at $600, I've seen some prices as low as $400. Anyone have experiences with eBay sellers like AudioSavings?
Having done photography in high school, gray market photography gear are a pretty common thing and comes with steep discounts. Not sure how the music market works.
Too good to be true?
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- KVRer
- 2 posts since 26 Sep, 2015
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- KVRAF
- 7885 posts since 20 Jan, 2008
There used to be "deep discounts" for professional musicians for various products even if you weren't an endorser. That was back in the 50's and you would have had to be a serious recognized talent. It wasn't just everyone who could get a gig got a discount. Gibson used to do that quite a bit with their guitars.
Brick and Mortar stores carry a lot of overhead. In the commercial real estate it's location, location, location. If you aren't in the right location you won't get the people willing to pay for higher end equipment. The right location costs money and there are quite a number of other factors that lead to overhead. If they can't pay overhead and labor then they can't sell a product. Some will price things up more than they need to as a form of status. People who are consumed by status are much more willing to pay the extra money because they think it's worth it.
Depending on the brick and mortar store some offer free in house warranties. Which come in handy as they may have an authorized tech on duty who can fix a problem without sending it out to BFE.
I personally am reluctant to purchase via deep discounters on the web. It's often B-stock you'll be getting. They aren't going to open the box from the factory and test it or look at it before they ship. Anytime you have mass production you'll have B Stock. Some companies focus on B stock won't list it as such. others won't touch B stock.
Brick and Mortar stores carry a lot of overhead. In the commercial real estate it's location, location, location. If you aren't in the right location you won't get the people willing to pay for higher end equipment. The right location costs money and there are quite a number of other factors that lead to overhead. If they can't pay overhead and labor then they can't sell a product. Some will price things up more than they need to as a form of status. People who are consumed by status are much more willing to pay the extra money because they think it's worth it.
Depending on the brick and mortar store some offer free in house warranties. Which come in handy as they may have an authorized tech on duty who can fix a problem without sending it out to BFE.
I personally am reluctant to purchase via deep discounters on the web. It's often B-stock you'll be getting. They aren't going to open the box from the factory and test it or look at it before they ship. Anytime you have mass production you'll have B Stock. Some companies focus on B stock won't list it as such. others won't touch B stock.
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