Elektron Musical Instruments

I dug through the friend emails to see how dumb I should feel about 
expecting to be notified each time 50 upgrade offers were opened up... here 
are some clips:
 FIRST MESSAGE:
 We will offer up to 200 upgrades at this price. But in order to avoid long 
service queues we will release the upgrades in turns. 
 As this mail is sent we're kicking off by offering 50 upgrades. 50 more are 

planned to be offered in two weeks. Only friends registered before today's 
date will be able to take part in the offer of today.

SECOND MESSAGE:
 As you read this we just made available 50 more upgrade offers for current
SPS-1 owners. Last time the 50 upgrade kits offered were sold out in less
than 24 hours, so you might better be quick to get one of the upgrades this
time!
 There was no third or fourth messages... and I figured that was due to the 
backlog and elektron wanting "to avoid long service queues". In fact, since 
nobody was reporting that they actually got their unit back, I figured they 
weren't opening up any further slots of 50. Now, I know I'm grumbling and 
there's nothing I can do - but can sombody in the third or fourth group of 
50 tell me how you knew to get in? Did you just keep checking the friend 
page.
 Grumble...
 Somebody *please *let me know on this list when any of the inflated 
upgrades are offered.
 -gerald

 
 On 7/1/05, Gerald Stevens <logo64@...> wrote: 
> 
>  How did I miss this? I thought that the friend offer was going out in 
> batches of 50 (to prevent too large a backlog), and by my count only the 
> second batch was announced. DAMN, that sucks... I was about to sell a 
> poly-61, DX-11, SY-22, drumulator, and TR-55 just to cover the upgrade price 
> - but I guess I botched this one some how... 
>  -gerald
>  On 7/1/05, daniel_elektron <daniel@...> wrote: 
> > 
> > The full upgrades will be offered (at full EUR 500 / USD 500 price,
> > the friend offer is sold out) when we have stock and resources. There 
> > might be a handful during the summer (we're not 100% sure yet) and
> > then more to the autumn. It is not sure we will be offering it forever
> > though as it takes alot of service resources to perform them.
> > 
> > Daniel, Elektron 
> > 
> 
>


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