Elektron Musical Instruments

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, hal3001 wrote:

> ehhh, the price is ridiculously high, as a sid owner, i'm sure u 
> understand how it is :) it's a $400-500 synth.  worth that 
> practically,  exists the hardsid also with the same sound, and waht 
> like $150? I def think the price jack due to the "final 100" is kind 
> of a really asshole move to do.  I understand supply and demand.  
> but tit seems wrong to me:(

Well, the method of rising the price was mainly because we wanted them to 
last longer. If we would have kept the price then they would have been 
away since long. At least there is some still if you really want them. And 
we thought it would be good for the second hand price for all the SID's 
already out there! And, don't say we didn't warn about this. We repeated 
so many times that it's good not to wait too long. We like to encourage 
people to buy in time. Actually I think it's worth to follow the price 
scheme of most companies, to sell them expensive to the early followers, 
and then let the safe players get them almost free at the blow outs. We do 
it the opposite way, we let the first adopters get a price benefit for 
daring going first!

Daniel