Today I tried to purchase an Onkyo TX-SR503E receiver here in Nuremberg. I went to three subsidiaries of Media Markt (American Readers: similar to Fry's), to both Expert Tevi shops and Saturn. Even though all of these shops are supposed to sell Onkyo equipment, only one of the Tevi shops actually had it on display -- and only the exhibit of the smaller version (SR-502E) for the mail order price of the SR-503E. Every other shop just had Yamaha (which would be fine if I wouldn't have to pay EUR 50 more compared to Onkyo for the name alone), Sony (no way!), Kenwood (too expensive for me), Harman/Kardon (even more expensive) and Denon (no idea whether their products are good, but too expensive for what I was looking for, anyway.) I wasted four hours of time searching for the product I want. Never again, next time I'll mailorder it right away.
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cheetah-spotty.livejournal.com 18 years, 7 months ago
Welcome to the club. I'm making the same experience over and over again: Retail Stores Suck for everything that is not "junk for the masses" or everyday goods like food and clothes.
I can go to any bookstore I like ... they NEVER have the books I want.
I can got to any CD store I like ... they NEVER have any of the music I want.
I can go to any electronics store ... they NEVER have the device I want.
I've concluded, that shopping on the internet is INDEED a much better choice if you know what you want.
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