stevemau

Put it this way, Its WAY better to buy from OUTPOST.COM because 1)If you live in CA, you have to pay taxes if you order from Klipsch. You should check if Klipsch charges tax for you state also. Outpost.com...NO TAX 2)"Shipping and Handling" is a BIATCH when you order from Klipsch. Trust me guys, i don't think you want to order from Klipsch with these heavy speakers. OUTPOST.COM, less than 10 dollars for 2-3 day air. I'd wait till outpost gets them. Or it might be better to buy it at your local Best Buy store if you have one. Therefore, all you'd pay is tax.

quote: Originally posted by Starkan: Stevemau, I think it's unwise to make a statement that Klipsch are "losing impluse and desperate buyers by the minute." They certainly haven't lost you or, I would bet, 90% of the other people who are waiting for their order. Most people will wait another month (need be - highly doubt that though) in order to get good speakers for the long run, compared to buying 4.1s just because they can't wait any longer. - Tyler How can you not say that they are not losing impluse buyers? They are losing the exact buyers who have any Klipsch products like the 4.1's, and who were VERY exited to hear that a 5.1 system will come out. Just by the look of the speakers itself makes you want to buy them. But if you sit back and evaluate, to get Dolby Digital, you will need a decoder. Either the AT, GAmeTheatre, or a 5.1 sound card. Then you will sit down and think if you will really need it, especially if you already have the 4.1 ProMedia's. Let me give you a real life example. Look at the PS2, how much hype sony gave it. But it kept on getting delayed, and they didn't even have enough PS2's to satisfy the demand. As time goes by, those buyers who make the demand soar out the roof, lessens a little. They look in the other directions to similiar products. The result, sales of PS2's isn't as great as expected. And its Sony's fault, because they couldn't satisfy some, but not all buyers who would have bought it IMMEDIATELY once it came out. Can you not say that if the 5.1's came out the first date announced, that week of sales would be greater if this product came out as late at August 15th? The point of this reply is, its all about Marketing. Making your product a quality product, which Klipsh has certainly done. But also creating and keeping the appeal of the product once announced, which they have certainly failed.

1st of all, customs doesn't take this long when it comes shipping a major product like this one. This product is supposed to come out in June, and it got delayed and delayed over again. It also isn't customs becuase look at Klipsch's webpage, they don't even have a pre-order page made up. They don't have anything ready on thier shop page resembling the 5.1's coming out soon. I hope they have web page designers who are really fast and create the page to order 5.1's they day it actually comes. Now just tell us its a delayed product, and nothing more. Don't give excuses, becasue it generates this kind of bad publicity. Imagine is Klipsch's products came on time along with thier excellent quality. But this isn't the case, and are losing impluse and desperate buyers by the minute.