I'll be buying the NX7000 in a month or so. I wanted Nav, BT, and XM for under 1000 bucks and with all the traveling and hotel stays I do, I wanted a detachable face. JVC is the only one that fits the bill and with my hookups at local stereo places, I am able to get all that for just over 850 bucks. I'd love to have the Kenwood or one of the Clarion units or something like that, but none of them offer the detachable face that I really want to get.

JVC for me

 

WOW! $850 is an amazing price considering I can barely touch the radio itself for that plus add the other pieces as well. I'd be simply handing you my wallet after the installation. I really hurts this industry with the low-ballers out there. Deal or no deal. Retailers need to step it up and build a backbone on a retail end. Not saying bend the customer over but I've learned all the super discounts and minimal points over cost kills you in the long run. Not just us small guys. Look at the used to be "unstoppable" Circuit City, Tweeter, Best Buy stores. Lowballers have killed them. I ran three Circuit Citys for over 4 years. I never thought I would see them fall so soon. It really hurts to see them go considering I would say they were my birthplace for true customer service skills. Its been nearly 9 years ago but I still have tons of return customers by my side from when I worked there.

Not trying to shame anyone in particular but anyone that owns a business that has a competitor that makes you ask yourself "how the hell can they sell it like that?" knows where I'm coming from. It really stabs you in the stomach and makes you fear for the future of your business if this stuff goes on. Luckily the manufactures are starting to take notice of this. Companies like Pioneer, Rockford Fosgate, DB Drive, Pac, and the list goes on have started to work on this. They find out who is selling to these vendors and take action. Sound Domain went down for it and SonicElectronics is starting to take some heat as well. I've even received calls from some manufacturers. That's the reason why some of my products have a MAP "Minimum Advertised Pricing" listed but if you add it to your cart you can view my special offered pricing but even then I have pride and will not go rock bottom as many of you know. I'll let a few dollars determine a sale. People take offense to it and think that I don't care about a sale but it's PRIDE. I just feel dirty to myself if I sell something so low like my undercutting competitors.

I'm just venting here but it is stuff like this that is killing the industry and forcing us small guys (and some big) to shrivel up and die. I'm thankful for all local retail sales and installations to back the business up and keep my alive to put food on our table. I feel that where does the loyalty of the cheap-o Retailer lie? Do they really feel indebted to you if they have barely made any profit at all from the customer for giving such a great deal. How quickly are they pressed to take care of that customer if something has went wrong when there has only been $20 or so dollars made over the top. Hell the first shipping fee or even the time to handle that return has eaten up the profits so they would tend to drag their feet because it's not first for their priorities.

Oh yeah. Back to the radios. Love them both. The funny thing about this is that on October 1st last year bot Kenwood and JVC merged under one holding. They are one in the same. Also last week sadly Panasonic announced that they are no longer producing mobile electronics goods anymore. Little info from in industry for you guys.

 

Nothing personal KCAutosound, but I emailed you SIX times in an attempt to get your opinion on this exact deck and did not receive one response. Oddly enough, I did email about the SRT-9000 Code Alarm, got an answer the same day, emailed back the same day nearly two weeks ago, and again have yet to receive an answer. I will still probably be buying the alarm from you, but for me personally and my expectations, I need a company able to answer my questions a little more quickly than now 8 emails and only one response. I was prepared to pay the amount you are asking for the deck until I received absolutely zero response about it and decided to seek out another option and that's where I went in this case. I mean no disrespect and I understand you have had lots of personal issues as of late, but I think most would agree that they need someone they can feel they have a little more confidence in than over 2 months of attempted contacts and only one returned email.

And not that it matters, but this deck is coming from a Best Buy store manager. I detailed his Tahoe, his wifes Crossfire, and his son's BMW for a HUGE discount in order for him to give me cost on the deck and addons. This is not one of those "small on the side companies" trying to undercut the bigger guys or the other ones. This is a friend helping out another friend and if I can offer a service to him and his family in exchange for a discount on a very nice piece of car stereo equipment, then why not right? I'm sure you and anyone else would agree that's not a bad deal on either end of it.

I would still be quite happy to do business with you in attempt to overlook the lack of communication and purchase at the very minimum the SRT-9000 alarm from you. If you read this and can search through your previous emails to see the last one I sent and respond to it, the email address is tjohnson@cagi.com and I'm sure we can work something out if you would like.

 

TJO5FX4. I completely understand your purchasing deal between the guy you are buying from.

I am showing in my phone email sent folder that I did in fact reply to your January 12, 2009 email you had sent me about your questions on the 7000 as well as the Rockford 6x8 components. I'm sorry if it never reached you. I will send you a new email this evening.

By the way. Please edit your posting to remove your email address. Web crawlers will grab that open email link and spam you. Never post a fully linkable email address in a forum or unshielded form. Always post something like tjohnson @ cagi . com or something.