Cheap speakers
Mon, Jul 16 2007, 3:41PM
Has anybody used the web site www. rebelio.co.uk they seem to have some ridiculously cheap stuff some listed below
q acoustics speakers 1010 £46 1020 £56
wharfedale 9.1 £56
Kef iq3 £112
now i can't find the above 1010's lower than £89 on any other web site, the warf's at £129, & the kef's at £249 as with anything that is alot cheaper than other sites, it rings a warning bell, anybody purchased from this site, any info would be nice.
Thanks
Mon, Jul 16 2007, 4:04PM
#2
Thanks for the clarification, thought they were per pair as per other web sites, so have learned a good & valuable lesson, thankfully before i placed an order. Thanks
No alarm bells, just the fact that it's a European site, and they do things differently there. See below live webchat I just had with their operator 'Paris'
"andrew: Can you confirm your pricing on loudspeakers?
andrew: Is the price given per speaker, or per pair?
Paris: In the
case of loudspeakers, the price indicated on the web site is for unit,
but some models can only be sold in pairs; This means that you can not
buy just one, and price has to be duplicated to know the real price. In
order to be sure about a specific model, you must put the item on the
shopping cart and press the checkout button: if the loudspeaker can not
be sold in single units, you will see a message indicating: "The
purchase order quantity for XXXX LOUDSPEAKER has to be a multiple of 2"."
So as you can see, the price for a pair of 1010s is £92 - ie 2x£46 - plus £4.95 delivery, making a total of £96.95.
It's quite common for speakers to be priced 'each' in European ads and shops, rather than 'per pair' as they usually are in the UK. So you actually only save £3.05 on the usual £100 price in the UK shops.
Consulting Editor, What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision/whathifi.com Audio Editor, Gramophone