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In Reply to: RE: Wingate Audio??? posted by bobschneider8 on July 3, 2011 at 10:16:42:
All of your arguments *sound* reasonable. But then you present Legacy Audio. There have been many that started off as direct sales only but then switched to dealers -- PS Audio is perhaps the most prominent example but there have been several others in the past decade. On the other hand Zu is the only company that went the other way. It is too soon to tell if they will survive.
I hope you got what you wanted through buying online. Even with a money-back guarantee it is something of a hassle to return it. Same for used. You can usually sell for close to what you paid (less the listing fees) but again the hassle factor raises its head. I don't think brick and mortar shops are going away anytime soon.
Think of it this way -- you could brew a nice cup of coffee at home for not very much money. Yet people line up to pay 20x or 30x as much to purchase it at their favorite local coffee shop. Why? Lots of reasons. Similar reasons exist around any luxury purchase.
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