UK Price Rises

Price rises and playbase with no new tech is not the way to go. Playbase seems like an old product even before it is launched.
Main hope is for intregration with alexa & google home, to try to stop people dumping sonos altogether.

The most disappointing aspect for me is ordering a Play 5 on Saturday from Electricshopping.com in the UK for £429 then having my order cancelled on Tuesday as they'd "got the price wrong on their website". Incompetence and disregard for the consumer bundled together. Will not be buying anything from that dealer ever again.

Trouble is, you buy into sonos by getting a good start deal ( in my case a connect, connect amp and bridge) for a good price (£650) but then find expansion is expensive. Tempting to say, sod it I'll sell the sonos on eBay and start again with the (much higher end) naim unity system ... But the cheapest component of that is the £1200 uniti quite which is, basically, a connect amp. Suddenly sonos doesn't seem so spensive! 😃

Suddenly sonos doesn't seem so spensive! :D
That is what a good pricing manager will always seek to achieve, if he/she is earning their salary. This is no longer a casually filled job in any large corporation now.

only joined the SONOS revolution at the beginning of February 2017 - Play 3 and a connect - over the moon with this equipment - was going to buy a Sub and Playbar today only to find out the prices have been hiked over BREXIT - WTF is going on ???? the French, Germans and Italians aren't leaving the EU so why have Amazon hiked them up over their as well - not paying into this scam

spotted a review about Bluesound Node 2 (never heard of them) but the reviews look great - since eBay is now in overdrive with everyone selling their SONOS stuff - I will end up now selling my Play 3 and connect at a higher price than I paid for them - this is a bad move SONOS and totally unjustified of hiking up the prices of what is 4 year old technology

I will end up now selling my Play 3 and connect at a higher price than I paid for them - this is a bad move SONOS and totally unjustified of hiking up the prices of what is 4 year old technology
Yes, but are you not thrilled at the capital gains that will allow you to move to the "better" Bluesound?! Which other make offers this kind of option?:D

Anyone know what the sales have been like since the price increase ? I just looked at buying a play 1 and its still £189 so thought against it! Ha

Given the churn in this market caused by Amazon Echo/Dot, I doubt it will be easy for even Sonos to connect effect to any single cause.

Anyone know what the sales have been like since the price increase ? I just looked at buying a play 1 and its still £189 so thought against it! HaI am sure sales have gone down, that's what happens with price rises. So now Sonos are selling fewer units at a price that makes a profit on each, instead of lots of units each of which makes a loss. Strangely, many on this thread seem to think that is "business suicide".

I realise it's not as simple as that, but there comes a time when there is no point carrying on selling below cost.

Anyone know what the sales have been like since the price increase ? I just looked at buying a play 1 and its still £189 so thought against it! HaI am sure sales have gone down, that's what happens with price rises. So now Sonos are selling fewer units at a price that makes a profit on each, instead of lots of units each of which makes a loss. Strangely, many on this thread seem to think that is "business suicide".

I realise it's not as simple as that, but there comes a time when there is no point carrying on selling below cost.

I've had my Play 1 in my kitchen for about 3 years. I listen to it every day that I am in my house for at least 4 hours on average. At £189 that would be 4.9p per hour of listening.

I consider ALL my Sonos gear to be money very well spent. I bet you plenty of items you have spent that much or way more on that you barely use.