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Old 08-09-2003, 01:14 PM   #44 (permalink)
rodgerd
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Location: Wellington, New Zealand
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Originally posted by remiel
The guy who comes in today and buys a ten dollar T-shirt might come back next week and buy an Ultra Glide Classic for 20 grand.
It's amazing how many people who work in the more "premier" forms of retail don't understand that.

I once had an amp that had accident (vase of water...) and was looking to get it repaired; went into one of the audio shops.

Now, my amp was a little low-end NAD unit, and it turned out these guys only sell Marantz and a few other, similar bits and pieces. They obviously saw themselves as a cut above, because while they were good enough to tell me where the local NAD dealer was, as I walked out of the shop, one of the guys on the counter snidely added, "Come back when you're ready for some real equipment."

I've averaged about $2k a year on component audio for the past 6 years since that incident. I've never spent a penny at that store, and I never will.
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