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I'm a consumer and don't sell any products, but I completely understand why vendors don't post prices...IMO it's smart business practice. If you post your price but others don't, you become pretty vulnerable to the competition. What do you do then when others privately undercut your publicly posted price?
Over my years of modifying cars, I've met quite a few shop owners. Unfortunately, many have gone out of business (including some pretty big ones). This isn't the consumer electronics industry where margins are high. Sure, some are doing very well, but for the most part, you're talking single digit margins.
By promoting price competition, which publicly posting prices does, you ultimately hurt the vendors that can't compete solely on price. And at the end of the day, as a consumer, I prefer having more vendors - I.e more options - then less.
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