Kenwood h.u. quality stuff

This is question about kenwood head units. I am looking at selling them in my store. I personaly have not had a kenwood in many moons so I ask for personal and professional opinions. Is the quality good? Prices competitve (cost and retail), Not aksing for your cost prices but can I sell it feel good about it and make a few $$ ? Currently I am selling Panasonics, JVC, Pioneer and I have access to sony, dual, rockford fosgate, clarion.  I have been approached to sell eclipse but the buy in is a little steep. So fire away and as always I do appreciate any advice or experience shared.

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From all the newer Kenwood head units that I have seen, they really seem like good quality stuff. I'm not a dealer so I can't really let you know about the retailing cost but I would assume that you should sell quite a bit of these just because of the name. The newer setups with the Ipod unit is really the ticket. Great setup if you ask me. I'm looking into that setup this summer actually.

Good luck ya..

Anybody with hands on. I've read up on them and they look real nice but, I'm always skeptical.

I would grind Eclipse personally. Better warranty to the consumer, I feel a better built and sounding cd player. Business wise all you would be doing is slicing up the pie into 4 pieces instead of 3 whereas you could add a scoop of ice cream to the pie by adding Eclipse. Show the customer a better option instead of the same thing but different. The buy in may be a little steep, so grind them as well. Make them aware that they are not the only kid on the block. Business is business, if they want yours bad enough, they will come down and meet you somewhere in the middle.

I would love to carry Eclipse, I have worked on the rep to no avail. The quarterly requirements he preaches would have me out of business in 6 months. One of my biggest competitors in the are just went under, they were local Eclipse dealer. They had roughly 70k (cost) in stock they have been dumping at cost or below. Quarterlys  burried them in product. Love the product hate the terms. I will continue to chisel away at him it may take a year. TCSS, Thats the line I was looking at was the excelon line, its good to hear the specs match the performance. Hey Rob did ever get a chnace to look at my pics?

Thanks for the info, I think I'll go ahead and call the rep back on kenwood, don't worry I have 10 open slots in my h.u. display for Ecplise. Thinking about dropping jvc, local box store sells it for my cost!!!! 

Here is my experience with this HU I have owend several ones from kenwood and they all have been very good quality.

https://www.the12volt.com/installbay/forum_posts.asp?tid=67214&KW=jonchos

I agree eclipse makes a way better unit. In my region prices drive the market (in general). I know it sounds bad but I watched the previuos eclipse dealer go belly up burried in equipment (70k at cost of equip). They were nice enough to let me review there  sales figures for the last 4 years a lot of reading but the final outcome was it was just not selling. I know marketing plays a roll in it but they had been the mobile electronics store for 16 years, so it was an established eclipse retailer. If the market changes I will be the first to adapt but for now there requirements for someone to sell eclipse is just to rich for my blood, I would be burried in equipment within a year.