[time-nuts] RFTG on ebay

[TheInfamousFlavio at hotmail.com]

I saw the $20 thing, more weirdness.

Anyway, that's wasn't my point.  That post said that they have only two RB 
units left, but eleven are up on ebay?!?!








----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Rabel" <jason at extremeoverclocking.com>
To: "'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement'" 
<time-nuts at febo.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 14:28
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] RFTG on ebay


>I think their prices were more of supply & demand...
>
> The first lot of RFG-RB's that they sold had a BIN for $20!!! (I missed 
> out
> on those or I would of bought them all), the next lot I believe had a $50
> BIN (again, missed out on those too), then $125, then $185, etc... Each 
> new
> lot they listed just kept going up as people were continuing to buy them
> all. The RFTG's were not listed until after the RFGs were already being 
> sold
> for the $125/$185 area.
>
> I don't know what the MSRP would be on one of these, probably so high it
> would make me have a mild stroke. But for $125 that I bought my RB for, 
> even
> just the LPRO-101 is worth that price. At $185 I probably would have 
> passed
> on the deal. I'm waiting for the XO model to drop down to about $125, if
> they do then great, if they don't then I'll just have to be patient and 
> wait
> for some other surplus units to hit eBay at a price I'm willing to pay.
>
> Anyhow, that post with their quantities left I found kind of informative. 
> It
> let me know how many units they have left (a bunch) of the model I want. 
> So
> I know I can still wait a while and hope for the price to fall some more.
> I'm not trying to defend "that vendor", but I bet you didn't know about
> their initial listings that were way below value (and some people got in 
> on
> killer deals).
>
> Jason
>
>> Fair enough.  I just thought they're pricing strategy kind of funny (and 
>> I
>
>> don't mean funny-ha-ha).
>>
>> It seems the price suddenly went up $100 as soon as some posts some
> progress
>> on time-nuts.
>>
>> If you don't want me to continue this thread, I won't.   It just seems
>> they're taken advantage of your group in a
>> way that is unfair to the group members.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Flav
>
>
>
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