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In Reply to: RE: And another insanely priced Harbeth speaker posted by mbnx01 on July 24, 2012 at 12:32:03
I agree their prices are insane. The $ vs the E has something to do with it as does importation costs. I'm sure it is not cheap to manufacture anything in socialist England. On the other hand if a dealer in the US sells a Harbeth speaker for $6000 and is getting $2400 gross profit, more power to them but that is insane as well and my cheap butt would negotiate the hell out of that transaction especially since the Harb dealers I know do not stock the speaker and are just shuffling paper to sell one. I called my only local high end salon the other day trying to buy a $1000 item and they didn't even have that in stock. I work for an electrical mfr in operations. The company I work for sells to wholesale distributors. They don't stock anything much anymore either so all their big $ transactions are paper shuffling, no warehousing costs. They do business every day at 5% margin. They have bricks and mortar infrastructure too and they make money and stay in business.
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Even though the dealers are making 40% on the Harbeths you would be lucky to get 10% off. There are a limited supply of Harbeth speakers coming into the U.S. and the dealers are not giving them away.
Anyone that pays retail has more money than brains. Most dealers I've worked with give 20-30% off and they are happy to still be in business.
Most dealers that give 20 to 30 percent off are already out of business.
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