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In the Thread: Prices in High-End Audio.

Post Subject: About the car comparation.Posted by xandcg on: 7/24/2015

A bit side topic but someone made a comparation with car market but I think the best comparation would be more specificaly with sports/supercars. Indeed I feel those are the same type of clients.

People pay high prices for:

Ferraris: very well know to have the worse painting service of the all car industry. Almost each brand new Ferrari come with scratches and need to be take care by a spealist on paint revitalization in order to have a decent paint.

There are tons of issues (always the same) occurring with Ferraris for decades/models and never addressed. They simple don't care and the 'Ferrari Community' are proud to have those issues well cataloged by them with the proper workaround.

Lamborghini: very easy to find real horror stories from Lamborghini owners. Lamborghini is very know to put cheap clutchs which break around each 7500 miles in order to avoid a transmission break and then they have to pay for that due to warrant. Note: 650hp is not that big to easy break a transmisison if that had be made for that...

McLaren and Porsches usually are more realiable. Porsche issues are very consistent. The problem one car have all others of the same cars will have and they address the issues fast. McLaren being a fully robotized car every single issue need to be debugged by them in UK but they never have time to do it... Most McLarens issues are on the software side very little on the hardware side.

These clients are very happy about paying top money for unreliable cars, since those are nice to have and show - its a price to pay they say. Ferrari clients, more specificaly, love to be ignored by the crap and arrogant Ferrari client service and most still feel the need of Ferrari to go back the time when in order to buy a Ferrari one need to almost 'give a head' to the dealer.

Conclusion: I think the same happens with the 'high end' audio industry, people simple like to be stolen because they want to show they can afford it.

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