They Almost Never Quote A Price , Why?

My version is "if I have to ask, they don't want my business".  

No dealers are hurt if the mfgr lists a MSRP, I don't buy that argument in the least -- about no one actually charges full MSRP.  But at least it gets you well within an order of magnitude and lets you start a list of interesting possibilities without further delay and effort. Unless it's one of the VERY rare products which seems attractive to the exclusion of all others, but in that case it's worth exposing your email address or phone number to a dealer.  For others, it's not worth that, so we're left with internet searches, which seem kind of dumb if someone has bought an ad to supposedly give information about their product.

Interesting pov's guys. Always buy used/demo and get away from "retail" pricing.  Happy Listening!

Jafant, you're good advice might be history; I've got a CJ preamp that needs repair, and CJ was too expensive, I contacted a repair shop in Canada that was going to repair it, and they told me CJ wanted to charge too much for the parts; their advice was to forget it.

I notice a lot of people are scratching around trying to fit a square peg in a round hole; face it, the middle class (those who are struggling to keep their head above water) have been priced out of the "high end", and that's all I'm going to say about that; by the way, if you've got a real sharp knife, you just might be able to fit that square peg in the round hole.

By the way, I have something "Panasonic" that I would rather repair than replace, and Panasonic told me they have shops within a lot of zip codes that do repair. I called the one near me, and got what I consider to be "normal" repair prices.