$200 credit at Best Buy to get IEMs - Looking for advice

You can actually get the SE535's for closer to ~$380 if you don't buy from BB and shop around a bit. 

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Originally Posted by PANGES 

You can actually get the SE535's for closer to ~$380 if you don't buy from BB and shop around a bit. 

The whole point is because he has a $200 credit from Best Buy so it would still be cheaper for him to get the SE535 and adding $300 to the $200 credit.

I say go with the SE425 because the SE535 ins't worth the extra $300 and the SE425 sound pretty much just as good.

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Originally Posted by Techno Kid 

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Originally Posted by PANGES 

You can actually get the SE535's for closer to ~$380 if you don't buy from BB and shop around a bit. 

 

The whole point is because he has a $200 credit from Best Buy so it would still be cheaper for him to get the SE535 and adding $300 to the $200 credit.

 

I say go with the SE425 because the SE535 ins't worth the extra $300 and the SE425 sound pretty much just as good.

But if you waste the $200 credit at Best Buy on the SE535, then he'd still have to shell out $300 + tax, which they will tax the original amount ($499), so his total would end up around $340-350ish. At that point, you might as well just buy them for $380 shipped and use the $200 BB credit on stuff that you can't really get cheaper anywhere else (like xbox/ps3 games.) It seems like a waste to spend money on stuff that's inflated in price, whether the money was free to him or not, it's still money.

It's your money and you can do whatever with it, I'm just saying that if you do spend the $200 on headphones at BB, then you're basically turning your $200 gift card into a $30-40 gift card, which is awesome for Best Buy, but sucks for you. :(

Sell the card for a little less than face value, take the money and buy something from someplace that has reasonable prices. Or hang on to it, wait until end of next month with all the Christmas sales craziness starts kicking in and who knows what you can score for your $200.

My suggestions (based on what you said above) is either the 535 or the Turbine Pro Copper (or Gold if you want some bass).  IDK if your BBY has the Monster Gratitude, it's one of my favorite IEMs at the price range as well.  The Mile's Davis also get good rep here too.  Haven't heard much about the Senns or the 425s on here though.  The IE80 are the ones being spoken about with Senn.  

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Originally Posted by Speakerphile 

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Originally Posted by PANGES 

You can actually get the SE535's for closer to ~$380 if you don't buy from BB and shop around a bit. 

From the looks of it, Shure has a pretty tight pricing policy. Because of this, a place that would sell them at $380 is not an authorized dealer. If they are, they probably won't be for long. So you are really just looking for a dealer that is either dishonestly buying grey-market gear, or one that is being dishonest in their relationship with Shure. Not really the type of dealer that I would trust to keep my best interests in mind. Just my 2 cents...

Well, the tight pricing policies that manufacturers give are usually just for advertised pricing; however, if you call or email places (ie: vendors on this forum), you'll likely receive a much lower price than advertised. And yes, I got the SE535's and Westone 4's from authorized dealers for much lower than the advertised price. Come to think of it, i rarely need to pay full MSRP on headphones unless I'm impatient and want them right when they're released. I'm sure the same goes for most head-fiers.

Also, even if you don't make contact with the vendors, if you visit some of the ones around head-fi, you'll notice they usually put discount codes up. For example, earphonesolutions.com was doing a 20% discount code, which brought the SE535's down to around $399-400. I wouldn't exactly consider them a dishonest dealer. They also offer 2 year warranties. :D

Either way, it's your money, and if you wish to pay full MSRP for everything, then more power to you. I'm just trying to help another head-fier make the most out of his money. 

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Originally Posted by ArmAndHammer 

Sell the card for a little less than face value, take the money and buy something from someplace that has reasonable prices. Or hang on to it, wait until end of next month with all the Christmas sales craziness starts kicking in and who knows what you can score for your $200.

Thats probably the best option imo.

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Originally Posted by Techno Kid 

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Originally Posted by ArmAndHammer 

Sell the card for a little less than face value, take the money and buy something from someplace that has reasonable prices. Or hang on to it, wait until end of next month with all the Christmas sales craziness starts kicking in and who knows what you can score for your $200.

 

Thats probably the best option imo.

Also a good idea. BB usually has some really good deals on things if you go during Black Friday, although I'm not sure if it's worth it to you or not to wait in line. lol.

You may want to consider the ATH-CKM99.

The MD Trumpets are very good, but you can get them for half that price elsewhere.

Orrr.... You can get hook-ups if you know anyone that works there. I used to work at BB (I know, rubbish job.. To make it worse, I was in Gaming and Personal Audio department. I got warned multiple times because I said Beats were rubbish and recommended people to a LEGIT headphone shop around where I live) and before quitting, I used my employee pricing to get the HD-25 Adidas for $160.