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>>> <SnarleyCo@aol.com> 12/03 8:16 AM >>> > Nothing better than having a demo in store of a product someone KNOWS you might like , servrd w/ coffee and the opportunity to "ahh take it home and mess w/ it a few days"... I enjoy that relationship at a couple stores, but if the difference is getting into the > $50 zone, I find it hard to bite the bullet and pay the extra. I'm financially unable to. They can only match the truly good deals as the exception. Even Guitar Center has refused to match existing real prices on the Mackie SRM450 monitors... But the real cruz of the problem locally-regionally for me is this. Repair at "Authorized" service centers has amounted to them being middle men who end up shipping it back to the manufacturer. I can usually eliminate 2-6 days of them futzing about with it before they send it to the manufacturer if I just call xyz and get a RA and ship it myself. > "stores" like M-Friend (we have a dealership in knoxville) remind me of Best Buy: Long on discount.....very very very short on KNOWLEDGE. Sure some employees at the local shop might be experts about a certain line or single favorite product... but I ask midi control questions about a new box and usually get treated like I need to know too much. I have rarely had them fire up the unit... and lead me to params for source and destination. This is vital to the way I use real time control and I've rarely gotten help on this. Meaning I've either had to buy or download a manual to check it out. Now frequently manuals never even list the parameters!? In all cases (for me so far) I've ended up buying the box or spending a good amount of time at the store to discover these features. This doesn't endear me to any of the stores I've attempted to pry the info loose from. Usually they start asking me questions about "What are you going to use it for?" and actually diverting me from my specific detailed questions and being more general leaving me with NO INFO on exactly that which makes it or breaks it for me. They also get impatient and irritated with sifting through the details... It's just easier to buy the cheapest one right off the bat and do the homework myself. If it doesn't fit my needs I usually can get my money back out of it. Final impression is that I've been far more frustrated trying to deal with ANY shops concerning important details about products. So for me NOT having to talk to them is quite a relief... It's offensive to have them grudgingly get a manual out for me to peruse... my .02 cents... -miko