On December 9, 2006 at 03:49, BigPapa said...
First of all, it's not $1000 bucks for an 850, it's $1000
for an 850, and MRF250, and programming. MSRP on both
products is about $500. That leaves a profit somewhere
in the neighborhood of $200 on both products.
On a $15K system, let's say $5K in speakers. $3k projector...
$7K for components and install time. That's probably an
AV reciever and 3 or 4 sources.
Holy moly, is that what people pay to put a home system in?
Good for them but some of us would never dream of paying that kind of money.
Not when you can buy the 850 and MRF250 package for $250 brand new with warranty and software, on ebay. Used I've seen the 850 sell for as low as $109.
My entire system, complete with Panasonic 42" Plasma, Yamaha 5.1, Pioneer 640 HDD dvd recorder and Pioneer 300 CD changer plus the MX-850 (later replaced with the Harmony 880 remote) cost me about $3100. Programming and connections: No charge as I did that myself.
I think it's people like me that Rich is defending when it comes to URC policy.
We would NOT even remotely consider buying from an Installer or AD because we either don't have that kind of money or don't see the value in paying 3 times the price or have had bad experiece with "professionals" coming to our house or just enjoy doing ourselves.
Others have pointed out that there are two different kinds of Customers and therefore two different kinds of Markets.
Why can't URC look after all of their customers equally instead of discriminating against the do it yourself guy??
