Why so many used focals?

Like I said, sometimes it takes awhile. I demo’d a pair of speakers from tweeter years ago and told the dealer I loved them and when he could find 30% off the list price to call me, they were the VA beethovens and it took about 4 or 5 months but he called and I bought them right over the phone. I don’t have your price sheet in front of me and if I did it probably wouldn’t mean much to me anyhow. I know from a business perspective though a sale is better than no sale and profit margins are (generally)what the market will bear. There’s a guy who’s ears I trust tell me he considered the Kanta 2’s to be a $6000 speaker while he thought the persona 3f would compete at $12k. If I don’t like them they’re worth 0 to me. If the kanta 3 turns out to be ’the’ speaker I end up with they’ll be worth waiting for.
I didn’t realize I was implying anything when I was stating my criteria for buying hifi products.

Someone is sounding a bit like the deal he thought he got from his stereo store wasn’t such a deal after all.

The thread has been positive for the most part and my model works for me and has a pretty substantial downside as in I have to wait! Anybody who pays retail gets all the value that comes with it, something I sacrifice waiting for my price and often I don't get what I want.

Well, except there really aren't that many Focal speakers listed....

High end local dealers won't stay for too long unless they have online sale and have an attractive price policy. For example, the hassle of buying bulky items online is that if you want to return, the shipping fee and insurance will be hundreds of dollars. So a local dealer can match the online price. (Again, dealers make good profit on speakers anyway.) In the case a customer wants to return the speakers, the restocking fee then will be charged comparable to the shipping fee. Anyway, In the Unites States, the high end business will die with the baby boomer generation (my generation) and may be even before that because our ears gradually can no longer hear sound in details as we did 20 years ago.