> From: "David Orriss Jr" <dave_at_davenet.net>
> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 21:37:55 -0700
> Subject: Re: [NTLK] Anybody looked on Ebay lately?
>
> ---- Original Message ----
> From: "Jim Witte" <jswitte_at_bloomington.in.us>
> To: <newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 9:34 PM
> Subject: [NTLK] Anybody looked on Ebay lately?
>
>> I was just looking on Ebay to see what Newtons are going for these
>> days (thinking a new 2100 would be almost as much money as paying
>> pixSolutions to upgrade. Looks like Walmart (you know, "watch out for
>> falling prices.."). The going low-end price for 2100s seems to be about
>> $70 now! I thought the 'big glut' that hit the market as the likes of
>> Merck got rid of theirs had already passed..
>
> Yea but now there's another issue... what the market will bear. People just
> don't want to spend money right now...
More likely, one of two scenarios...
1) As another poster pointed out, we seem to be seeing a lot of "B" and "C"
Newtons, implying that the glut of pristine ones may be over, leaving the
more "well-loved" ones.
2) Market saturation- take a market hungry for a product, suddenly dump a
ton of them on the market cheaply. Now, what happens when the majority of
people who want the product now have one? At that point, the only people
buying are current users buying a spare/replacement and the odd new user (a
relatively small number since the Newton is a "dead" platform).
<<<john>>>
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