I have friends who hear my system..tell me it sounds fab.. they love it etc..
Then go on to say that they have better things to do personally with their time/money etc.
I.O.W. 'Yes it's better.. but I don't want it'.
Bizarre logic.
Mull
I'd listen to a dealer who offered me a multi-room system that stored all my CDs and other digital music on a hard disc and then piped it to the rest of the house via wifi. I know this technology exists, and I'd pay to have it installed. So come on dealers, sell me something to fit my 21st century lifestyle.
Chaps
The simple truth is that hifi retail is useless, the staff and the managers just do not have a clue on the very basics of selling.
They talk down to prospective customers, they treat wives who accompany the men as a pain in the arse, have these idiots ever thought of having a decent loo in their shops for the wives, they slag off the competition which most of us don't like and above all they get on forums such as this and say the same daft stuff as us lot, they have just not heard of the word "professionalism".
Their industry has suffered and they are the root cause of it.
I feel sorry for the manufacturers, who the hell wants their products being sold by this bunch of drongos.
The customers with the real money (us) are now buying pre owned and paying a fraction of the price the dealers are charging. Instead of using forums such as this to their advantage, they just wash their dirty linen in public, slagging everything off and then wonder why no one walks across their threshold.
The millenials, who are their future will just use the net and what do the dealers do to combat this - nothing.
They are useless bloody dinosaurs.
Regards
Mick
Chaps
The simple truth is that hifi retail is useless, the staff and the managers just do not have a clue on the very basics of selling.
They talk down to prospective customers, they treat wives who accompany the men as a pain in the arse, have these idiots ever thought of having a decent loo in their shops for the wives, they slag off the competition which most of us don't like and above all they get on forums such as this and say the same daft stuff as us lot, they have just not heard of the word "professionalism".
Their industry has suffered and they are the root cause of it.
I feel sorry for the manufacturers, who the hell wants their products being sold by this bunch of drongos.
The customers with the real money (us) are now buying pre owned and paying a fraction of the price the dealers are charging. Instead of using forums such as this to their advantage, they just wash their dirty linen in public, slagging everything off and then wonder why no one walks across their threshold.
The millenials, who are their future will just use the net and what do the dealers do to combat this - nothing.
They are useless bloody dinosaurs.
Regards
Mick
Griffin Audio (sadly Bob Griffin died in about 2007 from cancer but I don't doubt he'd still be in business if he was alive today, Audio Affair operates from the same premises today) and Richer Sounds. All of these dealers are/were friendly, accommodating, irrespective of budget and are happy to diversify.
Bob was sound, let me mess about with a NAIM system even though he knew it was not within my means, the Rega was though. Spent a while in the shop after buying a Miles Davis LP and plopped it on the LP12
Lee, even if you are the most professional salesman in the world and have toilets fit for Her Majesty to churn one out on, I would still have no interest in buying anything from you. Why? This part of Mick's post still very much applies: "The customers with the real money (us) are now buying pre owned and paying a fraction of the price the dealers are charging."Mick,
My business could not be more different from what you describe. I make a point of it. Please consider giving us a try.
Regards,
Lee
Just disinfected our toilets and posted about it on Facebook, I think that has all bases covered.
Keith.
Lee, even if you are the most professional salesman in the world and have toilets fit for Her Majesty to churn one out on, I would still have no interest in buying anything from you. Why? This part of Mick's post still very much applies: "The customers with the real money (us) are now buying pre owned and paying a fraction of the price the dealers are charging."