thorshammer1 10+ year member
CarAudio.com Veteran
Very well thought out post and yet you are entirely wrong. DC is not going to give up on direct sales as 90% of all our sales comes from the internet. Our dealer base is minuscule to say the least and although we have tried to gain b&m dealers (as any company does) we have found that the state of the 12v community and b&m dealers is becoming a dying bread.If we are going to talk business, this is DC's fault, not the consumer (or the OP). DC is trying to have their cake and eat it too. You either sell online direct, or you dont and instead build/support a b&m dealer network. DC has been trying to ride the fine line between both of these business models for some time now. Its not a question of if the 'direct' prices get published publicly, but when they will. And to top it off, when DC gets large enough to support a relatively large dealer network, they will undoubtedly dump the direct sales. We've seen this happen before, rely on word of mouth of the hardcore enthusiasts, mostly online, to lay the foundation for a company to go national with a dealer network, just so the company can turn a blind eye to the very market that helped propel the onto the national scene. Like you said, this is business, and in business there is no room for feeling sorry for a company who makes mistakes or tries to play both ends of the stick. DC wouldn't/wont feel bad for us when it turns strictly to its dealer network and we are all forced to pay full msrp, even though many of us have absolutely no need for any of the services that local dealer's overhead will cost us. They dont feel bad for us consumers, so why should we feel bad for them?
There are some big changes on the horizon for DC i.e. posted internet priceing,direct sales etc...
This has been a record breaking yr in sales for DC. We acknowledge that could not have happened without internet sales and as stated above we will not abandoned our customer base.
OP at least you could have posted a new price list not one generated in 2008:suicide: