Hey Do HiFi & Home Theater Magazines Get to Keep Items They Review?

[N. Abstentia]

Yes, magazines keep all the equipment they get and then resell it in their retail stores (like the Stereophile Stores or Sound & Vision Shops which are found throughout the US). That's how they make their money.

[Woochifer]

Yes, magazines keep all the equipment they get and then resell it in their retail stores (like the Stereophile Stores or Sound & Vision Shops which are found throughout the US). That's how they make their money.

Must live in a better neighborhood than I do, all I get around here are the High Times stores and their manufacturers' samples always seem to mysteriously disappear well before I arrive. Methinks it's an inside job.