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Selling Autotubas at Car Shows?

Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 7:51 am
by DJ Higgumz
OK so I will be selling some car related stuff at this car show in Jefferson, Wisconsin. and just the other day I thought, maybe next year I could bring 20 autotubas! I would sell them from $300-400 a pop. I would have one in my car, and I would do demos with them. Do you guys think this is plausible? could I sell them? I will get a franchise, dont give me that lecture :wink:

Re: Selling Autotubas at Car Shows?

Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 8:27 am
by DJPhatman
As long as you are an "authorized builder", you can sell them any way and any where allowed by your franchise. I would take some different finish examples, such as Duratex, carpet and "custom" color-matched versions. I don't know if you could sell 20. How good of a salesman are you? If the majority of the people already have huge custom systems in their rides, I doubt that you will turn them with an auto-tuba.

Re: Selling Autotubas at Car Shows?

Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 2:23 pm
by Bas Gooiker
Most of the car sound idiots wet their pants over the look of moving cones in fiberglass mouldings, not over sound quality and big square boxes.

Re: Selling Autotubas at Car Shows?

Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 3:03 pm
by ketoet
When i was young i was one of those idiots.
All that mathers in that world is how much
Wattage you have in you're car.

Greetz ketoet

Re: Selling Autotubas at Car Shows?

Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 3:13 pm
by DJ Higgumz
I'll have to put a ported 15 for comparison. That will change minds haha

Re: Selling Autotubas at Car Shows?

Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 3:19 pm
by ketoet
The second most important thing was SPL figures.
And that's somethinh the AT's should excel at

Re: Selling Autotubas at Car Shows?

Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 3:21 pm
by sine143
just make them dual loaded series wired. most amps shouldnt be able to toast them at that point.... hopefully.

Re: Selling Autotubas at Car Shows?

Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 8:52 pm
by iamlowsound
Have an SUV there that you have a THT in as well, just to see them cry when you tell them that it is only one 15.

lowsound

Re: Selling Autotubas at Car Shows?

Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:48 pm
by Radian
Best wishes Steve. During the last soud-off I attended, two Auto Tuba's absolutely destroying the back end of my car drew about as much attention as properly inflated tires. :| If nothing is moving, and it doesn't blink.... :roll:

Re: Selling Autotubas at Car Shows?

Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:54 pm
by Bill Fitzmaurice
ketoet wrote:When i was young i was one of those idiots.
All that mathers in that world is how much
Wattage you have in you're car.

Greetz ketoet
+1. Want to sell them? Engrave '2,000 Watts' on the outside of the cab, and don't say what's inside.

Re: Selling Autotubas at Car Shows?

Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:56 pm
by Bruce Weldy
Bill Fitzmaurice wrote:
ketoet wrote:When i was young i was one of those idiots.
All that mathers in that world is how much
Wattage you have in you're car.

Greetz ketoet
+1. Want to sell them? Engrave '2,000 Watts' on the outside of the cab, and don't say what's inside.

And to add to the mystique - don't tell anyone anything about it. Just say, "If you want to know how it works, you'll have to buy it and saw it in half."

And then charge so much that nobody would even consider doing it.

Re: Selling Autotubas at Car Shows?

Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2013 6:11 pm
by iamlowsound
Radian wrote:Best wishes Steve. During the last soud-off I attended, two Auto Tuba's absolutely destroying the back end of my car drew about as much attention as properly inflated tires. :| If nothing is moving, and it doesn't blink.... :roll:
You could put a plexi access pannel on it, so you can see something moving and to prove that it is just an 8.

lowsound

Re: Selling Autotubas at Car Shows?

Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2013 1:32 am
by Charles Jenkinson
With some pink LED lighting behind the glass.

Boooom!, Ka-Ka-Ka-Ka...

They'll be falling over themselves.

Re: Selling Autotubas at Car Shows?

Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2013 2:22 pm
by shane2943
iamlowsound wrote:
Radian wrote:Best wishes Steve. During the last soud-off I attended, two Auto Tuba's absolutely destroying the back end of my car drew about as much attention as properly inflated tires. :| If nothing is moving, and it doesn't blink.... :roll:
You could put a plexi access pannel on it, so you can see something moving and to prove that it is just an 8.

lowsound
Only if he doesn't want to sell any. Those people typically hear with their eyes. :roll: