not true.they sell to their dealers ,like me ,and in turn you have to buy from them .it protects the territories of the dealers .but i know you can get a better deal from ascendant dealers for their subs than you would from dd dealer s or dd themselves.if you called dd for a sub or amp and there was a local dealer they would refer you to them ,and would not give you a price because of the dealers protected areadon't buy from companies that don't post prices, it only encourages them.
a 15" is probably around 400, maybe a little more
Lots of companies do that, its called msrp. Problem is, most local shops take msrp as gospel, sell for that, get pissed if an internet company sells for less, and we get pissed at the local for selling at msrp.seems like a simple fix to that problem would be to list prices at say 500$ a woofer and then the dealer price would be 400 a woofer.