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Topic: how many of you are dei dealers?

Posted By: steeda911
Subject: how many of you are dei dealers?
Date Posted: October 21, 2010 at 12:17 AM

Hello all,
    I was thinking of becoming a dei dealer. I was wondering how many of you are dealers and what kind of advise you cam give me. I have been an installer for 8.5 years. I have been out of the game for almost 2 yrs but looking to install again and become a dealer. Like I said any advise or help would be great.

Thanks
Kris



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Posted By: xxunknownxx
Date Posted: October 21, 2010 at 12:23 AM
I'm not an installer but I love DEI :)




Posted By: steeda911
Date Posted: October 21, 2010 at 12:38 AM
Thanks for the input. How long have you been a dealer? Which level dealer are you? Mobile dealer or volume dealer. Being a dealer and being able to install will I also get dei support with wire colors, activating smartstarts, etc.

Thanks
Kris




Posted By: godd dan it
Date Posted: October 21, 2010 at 2:13 AM

steeda911 wrote:

Being a dealer and being able to install will I also get dei support with wire colors, activating smartstarts, etc.

Thanks
Kris

Im pretty sure if you are a dealer you will have access to all of that. But im not a dealer, so im not 100% sure.



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Posted By: Chris Luongo
Date Posted: October 21, 2010 at 8:34 AM
I personally use more Audiovox but I work part-time for a DEI dealer.

I believe to become direct with DEI the minimum is about $2000 per quarter in product.

If you're just getting back into the business and that's too much for you, maybe try to find a distributor until you have enough business to go direct.




Posted By: sean11901
Date Posted: October 21, 2010 at 10:37 AM
You don't need to become a dealer to get that kind of support. If you find a good distributor for dei products and setup an account with them I'm pretty sure they will give you just as much support as dei would since they have access to the directed dealers information including all vehicle wiring sheets.




Posted By: Thack79
Date Posted: October 21, 2010 at 10:49 AM
agree with Chris.  Find a distributor in your area, to see if you can work with them until you get your volume up. 




Posted By: Mark Mizenko
Date Posted: October 21, 2010 at 2:38 PM

DEI dealer since 1988





Posted By: kgerry
Date Posted: October 21, 2010 at 5:17 PM

DEI dealer since 1996



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Kevin Gerry
Certified Electronics Technician
MECP First Class Installer

Owner/Installer
Classic Car Audio
since 1979




Posted By: brhaugen
Date Posted: October 21, 2010 at 8:56 PM
My DEI distributor just went out of business posted_image
I think DEI has a program that you only need to buy $350 per quarter.
However since RS is all I do - I have 2 quarters taken care of - the other two are dead.
Guess I am back to using Ultrastart for my primary brand. Not horrible but I liked the Python units.

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Brent Haugen
Fargo, ND




Posted By: cvsct698
Date Posted: October 21, 2010 at 10:02 PM
We used to be a high volume DEI dealer, but last year we had a falling out with them. They shut down our Directechs access. They said it was because they compared the number of cars that we looked up on directechs to the volume of DEI units we were ordering. Since we looked up more cars than the units we ordered, they shut our Directechs down. The worst thing was, they did this without warning the week of Christmas. Not a big deal, as we have plenty of other ways to get our information, but it was a principal thing for us, as we were the only dealer in a rather large area, and sold incredibly high volume. We switched Compustar to our primary sales, on top of our alternate brands, and dropped DEI altogether. Now, they have a big sales void in our area, and are begging for us to come back. Not sure what they accomplished.





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