JL Retail and Online prices
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JL Retail and Online prices
Does any one know the retail prices of JL products. I am looking for the 300/4 and 500/1.
At www.onlinecarstereo.com have the JL pretty cheap. Anyone know any reliable online store that sell JL stuff?
Thanks
At www.onlinecarstereo.com have the JL pretty cheap. Anyone know any reliable online store that sell JL stuff?
Thanks
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how legit is this website??? prices look okay...
try https://acaraudio.com their JL audio stuff is cheaper
try https://acaraudio.com their JL audio stuff is cheaper
Burning Brakes
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Regarding to JL stuff:
JL Audio does not allow or want online sales. If you purchase online that is an authorize dealer .. all warranty is through the online store you purchase from .. NOT THROUGH JL Audio. Only time warranty is through JL Audio if you purchase your JL product through a brick & motar type store (actuall store with a retail building like Best Buy).
JL audio that seems very cheap=stolen,refurbish, used, broken, 5 finger discount, and/or missing serial number (warranty void if removed).
Onlinecarstereo.com offer warranty on JL Audio product only if you have receipt and you have to send it to ONLINECARSTEREO.COM ... not JL Audio.
Enjoy.
JL Audio does not allow or want online sales. If you purchase online that is an authorize dealer .. all warranty is through the online store you purchase from .. NOT THROUGH JL Audio. Only time warranty is through JL Audio if you purchase your JL product through a brick & motar type store (actuall store with a retail building like Best Buy).
JL audio that seems very cheap=stolen,refurbish, used, broken, 5 finger discount, and/or missing serial number (warranty void if removed).
Onlinecarstereo.com offer warranty on JL Audio product only if you have receipt and you have to send it to ONLINECARSTEREO.COM ... not JL Audio.
Enjoy.
VP Electricity
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Most cheap stores have iffy service. I have bought from OCS three times. Twice was fine and the third time they backordered me on a sale item and never told me until I called and sat on hold for 20 minutes. I would call and stock check before ordering anything.
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Burning Brakes
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before you order from onlinecarstereo. i recomend to call in to check availibility of the item you're buying. Their online status of inventory is so out of date and not acurate to what they actually have. btw .. their customer service S U C K! I work at a call center and damn .. they were just down right rude.
VP Electricity
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Here's the deal:
Most companies in the 12V business practice what's called a "push" distribution-channel strategy. This basically means that you push the product out to the retailers, and once they've made the financial commitment to that inventory, you can depend on them to push the product out the door. (A "pull"strategy would depend on creating demand for your product through mass-market advertising. In truth, many brands combine these, but "push" still describes their sales tactics).
Unfortunately, it also means that as a supplier you get addicted to the crack of last-minute of the quarter special deals to get product out the door to meet your targets.
So some small shop lets themselves get talked into buying a lot of gear - maybe with extended terms, maybe at a special deal, maybe both - and then realizes taht it's beyond their ability to sell before the bill is due, and a cash crunch would ensue, or credit hold would kick in (or maybe they knew it all along). They pass some product along at a slight markup to an online retailer (or maybe they ahve a special online retail store with a different name).
So the 12V supplier is shooting themselves in the foot this way, in the long run. If a lot of people put speakers and tweaky amps in and screw them up, the perceived value of the brand is diluted. But in the short term if those sales managers and sales reps don't hit their volume numbers, they get fired. So they do what they need to do to survive... and the people that set those goals, the CEOs and the ownership groups, they get what they deserve (like Rockjford - once proud, now a shadow of its former self). If the gear really sounds 100% when installed by a knowledgeable pro, and 80-90% when installed by a noob, then who gets hurt in the end? (Of course, you can also ask how many knowledgeable prs are there... or how many consumers are willing to pay extra for a pro).
It should be noted that JL online pricing is nowhere near as low relative to MSRP as Rockford and Pioneer and others... this is because they aren't quite as effed up from a sales POV, from what I'm told. Sony and those guys are available at much less than MSRP precisely because they are hooked to the crack pipe.
Most companies in the 12V business practice what's called a "push" distribution-channel strategy. This basically means that you push the product out to the retailers, and once they've made the financial commitment to that inventory, you can depend on them to push the product out the door. (A "pull"strategy would depend on creating demand for your product through mass-market advertising. In truth, many brands combine these, but "push" still describes their sales tactics).
Unfortunately, it also means that as a supplier you get addicted to the crack of last-minute of the quarter special deals to get product out the door to meet your targets.
So some small shop lets themselves get talked into buying a lot of gear - maybe with extended terms, maybe at a special deal, maybe both - and then realizes taht it's beyond their ability to sell before the bill is due, and a cash crunch would ensue, or credit hold would kick in (or maybe they knew it all along). They pass some product along at a slight markup to an online retailer (or maybe they ahve a special online retail store with a different name).
So the 12V supplier is shooting themselves in the foot this way, in the long run. If a lot of people put speakers and tweaky amps in and screw them up, the perceived value of the brand is diluted. But in the short term if those sales managers and sales reps don't hit their volume numbers, they get fired. So they do what they need to do to survive... and the people that set those goals, the CEOs and the ownership groups, they get what they deserve (like Rockjford - once proud, now a shadow of its former self). If the gear really sounds 100% when installed by a knowledgeable pro, and 80-90% when installed by a noob, then who gets hurt in the end? (Of course, you can also ask how many knowledgeable prs are there... or how many consumers are willing to pay extra for a pro).
It should be noted that JL online pricing is nowhere near as low relative to MSRP as Rockford and Pioneer and others... this is because they aren't quite as effed up from a sales POV, from what I'm told. Sony and those guys are available at much less than MSRP precisely because they are hooked to the crack pipe.
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Originally Posted by elduderino
Here's the deal:
Most companies in the 12V business practice what's called a "push" distribution-channel strategy. This basically means that you push the product out to the retailers, and once they've made the financial commitment to that inventory, you can depend on them to push the product out the door. (A "pull"strategy would depend on creating demand for your product through mass-market advertising. In truth, many brands combine these, but "push" still describes their sales tactics).
Unfortunately, it also means that as a supplier you get addicted to the crack of last-minute of the quarter special deals to get product out the door to meet your targets.
So some small shop lets themselves get talked into buying a lot of gear - maybe with extended terms, maybe at a special deal, maybe both - and then realizes taht it's beyond their ability to sell before the bill is due, and a cash crunch would ensue, or credit hold would kick in (or maybe they knew it all along). They pass some product along at a slight markup to an online retailer (or maybe they ahve a special online retail store with a different name).
So the 12V supplier is shooting themselves in the foot this way, in the long run. If a lot of people put speakers and tweaky amps in and screw them up, the perceived value of the brand is diluted. But in the short term if those sales managers and sales reps don't hit their volume numbers, they get fired. So they do what they need to do to survive... and the people that set those goals, the CEOs and the ownership groups, they get what they deserve (like Rockjford - once proud, now a shadow of its former self). If the gear really sounds 100% when installed by a knowledgeable pro, and 80-90% when installed by a noob, then who gets hurt in the end? (Of course, you can also ask how many knowledgeable prs are there... or how many consumers are willing to pay extra for a pro).
It should be noted that JL online pricing is nowhere near as low relative to MSRP as Rockford and Pioneer and others... this is because they aren't quite as effed up from a sales POV, from what I'm told. Sony and those guys are available at much less than MSRP precisely because they are hooked to the crack pipe.
Most companies in the 12V business practice what's called a "push" distribution-channel strategy. This basically means that you push the product out to the retailers, and once they've made the financial commitment to that inventory, you can depend on them to push the product out the door. (A "pull"strategy would depend on creating demand for your product through mass-market advertising. In truth, many brands combine these, but "push" still describes their sales tactics).
Unfortunately, it also means that as a supplier you get addicted to the crack of last-minute of the quarter special deals to get product out the door to meet your targets.
So some small shop lets themselves get talked into buying a lot of gear - maybe with extended terms, maybe at a special deal, maybe both - and then realizes taht it's beyond their ability to sell before the bill is due, and a cash crunch would ensue, or credit hold would kick in (or maybe they knew it all along). They pass some product along at a slight markup to an online retailer (or maybe they ahve a special online retail store with a different name).
So the 12V supplier is shooting themselves in the foot this way, in the long run. If a lot of people put speakers and tweaky amps in and screw them up, the perceived value of the brand is diluted. But in the short term if those sales managers and sales reps don't hit their volume numbers, they get fired. So they do what they need to do to survive... and the people that set those goals, the CEOs and the ownership groups, they get what they deserve (like Rockjford - once proud, now a shadow of its former self). If the gear really sounds 100% when installed by a knowledgeable pro, and 80-90% when installed by a noob, then who gets hurt in the end? (Of course, you can also ask how many knowledgeable prs are there... or how many consumers are willing to pay extra for a pro).
It should be noted that JL online pricing is nowhere near as low relative to MSRP as Rockford and Pioneer and others... this is because they aren't quite as effed up from a sales POV, from what I'm told. Sony and those guys are available at much less than MSRP precisely because they are hooked to the crack pipe.
One day soon I would guess Rockford will
VP Electricity
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Batman, you crack me up : )
Actually, now that they've bailed on Omnifi, and the HU biz, and stopped sending any money to Quart in Germany, I hear the Asian vendors are finally getting paid on time.
Actually, now that they've bailed on Omnifi, and the HU biz, and stopped sending any money to Quart in Germany, I hear the Asian vendors are finally getting paid on time.
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