Today I drove up to my local Tweeter and was going to make an appointment
to have my gear installed (sub, amp, front speakers). At first the fellow
told me I could not hook it up so that I could use my fader as a sub level
controller. I actually showed him some exact quotes from you guys about
how it was possible and eventually he said they could do it (after trying
to convince me I needed some converter).

After punching the info in the computer, he got a final price of 220
bucks which was about 80 more than I was quoted earlier. I asked him to
explain why the increase in the price and he showed me that all these
additional fees were being added, along with some hi-lo connector or
something. They also tried to get me to pay about 30 bucks for "their"
wire. When I questioned what was so special about "their" wire, the guy
got all upset, and finally admitted that since I wasn't buying the gear
from them, they have to add all these charges.

So after ****ing the guy off I just left and went to Circuit City where I
was quoted a price of $114. Then when I asked if they could hook it up
with the sub level controlled by the fader, the guy got confused and then
started telling me I needed a 40 dollar converter. I told him I had just
been to Tweeter and they said there was no converter required. Finally he
said it was possible but it would likely be about 60 dollars more to hook
it up that way. Plus he said I would need more speaker wire. So the
final price would be around $180 plus the additional speaker wire.

I guess I'll go with CC even though their installers are generally less
skilled.

Thanks to everybody for their help so far (Mark, Paul, Eddie, etc.)
Don