I guess when you're the car dealership of audio equipment, it's getting harder to screw customers over.

I wanted to post something about Monster Cable raping people with the help of tweeter, but I just couldn't make it funny enough. you get my point.

Tweeter???? Isnt that a part of a loudspeaker? Who really cares....lots of other places exist to rip ya off and Tweeter employees can always find a similar job at Best Buy, McDonalds, KFC.... I'm not sure why this is even news.

my dad has been considering an HDTV, and I'm pretty sure our location is one of those. Nice...

Ahh. Local store is one of those. Time to see what I would want from Tweeter if their prices were immediately cut in half!

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No, wait, everyplace else is still cheaper. I'll pass.

Umm...The Apple forums are full of warnings telling users to back up their music. iTunes itself reminds the users to back up. Apple does NOT allow redownloads. I can tell you that from experience.

So sorry!!! Posted something from the clipboard! Ugg...sorry..ignore my previous post...OR flame me.

Sorry!
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If I want to purchase some real Denon gear, I go to Tweeter. I don't want any of that fake stuff that Circuit City sells.

I'm pretty sure the IQ cap for selling TVs at BB or CC is 90. That rules out the Tweeter guys.

Tweeter is one of the shittiest stores anyway. LONG LIVE WALMART.

Tweeter? Never heard of it, of course I do live in one of the most isolated states in the nation. Still the store sounds crappy anyway.

I feel very sorry for you Ashkar406. I have a Tweeter within five minutes of where I live in Lexington, MA, and while yes, you can always find something for less money, they really do know their stuff. Many of the people who work in the Burlington store are older, and have obviously been around the block a couple times. Also, anyone who compares WalMart and Tweeter really doesn't know what they're talking about. Tweeter caters to a rather high end client, whilst WalMart... is WalMart. I also say this after laughing my head off after seeing a 6 ft Monster HDMI cable for $150 at Best Buy. I'm not biased one way or the other. I've just always really had positive experiences at Tweeter.

I stopped in at my local neighborhood Tweeter yesterday morning... they had big signs that said 10-30% off everything. Everything was actually 10% off, I couldn't find anything marked 30% off. And the percentage was off of the original prices. Additionally, they didn't have anything in the box, and they weren't taking extra $$ off for floor models. Guess I'll have to wait a few weeks to actually get a good deal.

They've got guys with big SALE signs standing out on the street in front of our Tweeter here in Saratoga Springs, NY. 10-30% off. Which is barely a sale anyway. I wonder how much they marked the stuff up before they put it on "sale."

I find it pretty amusing how everyone here is hating on Tweeter, "The car dealership of of audio equipment," "screwing people over," "marking stuff up". You guys obviously have no idea how a retailer works. The garbage you're buying from Walmart, Circuit City, or Best Buy for what you think is a "great deal," is more than likely ripping you off way more than you think. Take for instance computers, the mark up on computer is astronomical! Dish washers and the worst one CD's!! Everything is marked up somewhat. If a retailer was to sell everything for what they get it... well.. guess what, you're precious Best Buy's Circuit City's, and Walmart's wouldn't even exsist. And to further sink the nail in the coffin, Tweeter does price matching; think about it, what store would price match if they just marked everything up? Be logical. Not everything Tweeter sells those other places are even allowed to, that's why it's a specialty retialer. They carry the better stuff where everyone else carries the commodities and I think there's plenty to be said about their knowledge rather the brainless teenagers working at those other places. And one last thing, it says something when celebrities such as, all the guys from Aerosmith, Jeff Corwin, several Patriots and Red Sox player chose no one other than Tweeter to install their entertainment systems, and no it's not because their rich. Wealthy people actually are some of the cheapest people around. For what you guys don't know you sure do make a lot of assumptions and you know what they say when you assume... ; )

@ slimjim1234: So which Tweeter do you work at?

It's not that tweeter ripped us off, it's that they did it on a larger scale selling "upscale but not quite audiophile quality" items at inflated prices. This is while Best Buy and other places ate them alive on items that sounded almost or just as good at half the price.
Yeah uh, no they bought there because they were rich, Proton TV's look the same as a Sony, people who had more money than common sense bought at tweeter and their gravy train ran dry when Internet retailers selling the same thing at much less and big box retailers selling similar items for much less drove them out of business.
They price match local retailers because nobody sells the things they do! They don't sell the same items that Circuit city sells, so they never have to match crapola except other specialty shops that sell it for more.

Read the consumerists comments on tweeter and decide for yourself. They got away with it for as long as they could, and when someone goes out of business on such a large scale, it means they were wrong, they did things the wrong way, not that they were right.

I found Tweeter to be a good store to demo setups. When we were buying stereo equipment, my wife wanted the cute lil Bose cubes. I drug her kicking and screaming into my neighborhood Tweeter and had her listen to the difference between a 5.1 satellite, 5.1 bookshelf and 5.1 floorstand and bookshelf setups. Once she recognized the difference in the sound from the different speaker types, we left.

Why? Because the salesrep was a slimeball, between the products he was pushing and the way he kept insulting the wife we had enough. The following weekend we had cash in hand, walked back in but the 6 salesreps were too busy with their own conversation to help us. We didn't mind, we walked across the street to the BB and purchased the same receiver and comperable speakers for less. (Though I did skip on the cables and wiring. I got cables at Big Lots and wiring at Lowes.)

It sucks that they're pulling out of the Dallas market from a competative standpoint, but I didn't find the service here any better.

A larger scale? How does your statement even make sense? I can think of AT LEAST a half dozen TV's that Tweeter carries that both Circuit City and Best Buy do as well, and if you don't believe me check the websites. So, right off the bat you're proven wrong.

From a logical stand point how can a business exsist for 30 plus years doing what you claim, the answer quite simply is; it's an impossibility.

And in respose to one TV looking the same as the other... yeah, uh, not a chance. You're telling me that, let's say an LG bottem of the barrel plasma look just as good as say a Pioneer Elite series plasma, you must be kidding yourself. Consumers walk into a Tweeter see a brand and then walk into a Circuit City or something and see the same for less. There is a reason it's less, it's not the same TV! TV's are like cars, take a BMW for instance. They make a 3 Series, 5 Series.. so on and so forth. Same deal with TV's. There's always a good better and best buy a manufacter.

And for the record, contrary to what you said. Those people who spent more on better products because the had MORE common sense.

I saw a 30% off sign outside of Tweeters this week. Looks like our store will be closing soon.