In my experience if you go to small mom and pop audio shops they will usually give you some off but if you are to much of a hard *** or anything like that they probably will not come down any. As for taking in prices from the internet they will usually look at them and say thats nice. These shops probably could care less if you make a purchase or not because they just sold some guy a 20,000 doller pair of dynaudio. I have noticed that klipsch is not really sold in these types of stores so you probably can get away with brow beating the sells person. I am also a 23 year old college student and I have found it best to know your stuff in advance and treat the person with respect and he will give you the best deal.