Negotiating Price with Dealers?

[gez]

I think the importance of dealers has reduced over the years. I’ve had mixed experiences with dealers, including some pretty shoddy ones. Undoubtedly, there are some decent ones around but not many now. I prefer to make my deals across the internet.

It's becoming more common for even "specialist" dealers to only have a single very small often cluttered room for demos, and more and more don't even have that. I can only believe the reason is they just can't afford to have that floorspace not being used to display stock these days.

 

[speed]

Maybe so, but only if the dealer is doing such deals continuously. What is earned on such a deal has to cover the time when admin is being done. Tax returns, dealing with distributors, tyre kickers or those times when customers are short on the ground etc, etc all take time and that time is not generating income. That’s before considering cost of premises and staff.

Obviously a hobbyist dealer, working from home and not dependant on the income to live has more scope for undercutting the market and some of them have a reputation for threatening the more established dealers, whom we will doubtless miss when they are gone and the hobbyist dealer moves on to a new hobby.

When it comes to doing a deal there is often a range of flexibility, both for buyer and seller, and if those ranges overlap then business can be done and a good working relationship developed. If the ranges don’t overlap then no deal.

Hi, I did this many years ago with a pair of ATC scm12’s , eventually choosing the hobbyist Huddersfield Hifi went mental as they lent me some Quads to try, even said they’d drop another £50 it was embarrassing, especially as they went on asking for petrol money etc
At the time I’d bought lots of Cyrus stuff eg Cd7q and amps. But after that I will not bother, cheaper doesn’t mean better customer service.
I’d like to think dealer’s have realised this and that means cheaper isn’t always best