Which headphones of Drop's currently available?
I have some rewards points to burn but there's no obviously good options on Drop right now for headphones Contenders Ultrasone - maybe? I don't own any Ultrasones, so curious. Looks like garbage travel headphone which could be useful also. Beyerdynamic DT990 Pro. - Maybe? I have the DT 880 Good price point, really uncomfortable headphones but could be interesting to try the upgraded version. E-MU - strong contender but $400 is a bad price point for what it is. Which of the above would you choose and why? Nothing else on Drop is relevant to my interests, because Already own 6xx 820 800 s Ether cx Garbage / Consumer grade Meze 99 - garbage bass canons, hard pass No gaming headphones obviously Sennheiser wireless - no to wireless/bluetooth Hifiman - I have 2 of drop hifimans and they make really bad cheap shit on Drop, hard pass on HE-R7DX Aeon - I own the closed, Drop refuses to address #padgate so no reason to buy open Beyerdynamic 177x - wireless, nope Too similar 8x / 560s...
Mar 28, 2024
When you're placing wholesale orders, you email the sales rep, then they place the order, then someone takes the order and sends it to accounting, then someone initiates a wire payment, then someone sends an order form to the warehouse, then the warehouse stacks units onto a shipping pallet, then they call a freight carrier to pick it up, then it gets shipped to us. And maybe, at some point, someone has the initiative to send us the tracking # for the truck.
That's assuming that nobody above is on vacation, or being lazy, which further delays things.
In the consumer world you have choice, you can pay retail and buy an item from Bestbuy, or you can buy that same item, for basically the same price, on Amazon, or any other retailer. So they have to provide amazing service to win/keep your business. When Massdrop is ordering 100 units of X product, there's basically only 1 game in town, so they don't have to provide amazing service. Ordering products on Massdrop, you're getting the "not-so-amazing service" passed on to you, since you're effectively ordering a single unit wholesale.
We work really hard to try to mitigate and mask as much of this unpleasantness from the Massdrop community as possible, but it still creeps up pretty frequently and our posts are designed to provide transparency to reflect that.
(**This post relates to most of our orders, not specifically Senn) (You'd be surprised how many order forms we have to "fax" in.....)
This has probably been the most active comment section after a drop I have been in