Elektron Musical Instruments

ahh thhat's coo, i do enjoy the friends benefits that are there:)  
$500 less on the MM is great:) and you're right you did warn.  I 
don't mind really, i had my sid fill already!:-)  haven't had my 
machine drum or monomachine fill yet, hopefully sooon tho :D

-ryan

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, Daniel Hansson <daniel@e...> 
wrote:
> 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