Elektron Musical Instruments

Seriously, I applaud Elektron doing business this way. We all know 
how much of a collectible the sid really is. They just reinforced that. 
Of course, I already own one :)


On 15 Sep 2003 at 23:54, Daniel Hansson 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
> 
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