From: Peter Fraser (pjfraser_at_mac.com)
Date: Tue May 25 2004 - 13:55:08 PDT
I just called Eric at Rochester to try to get a little clarity on all of this.
He honestly doesn't know the configurations of the units that were ordered late last week, and all of them have already shipped. Suggest you call him after yours arrives if it has no memory chip and see what he's willing to do, but like Sonny says, it's probably the luck of the draw. and again, they were never advertised as upgraded, so you should probably be pleasantly surprised if yours shows up that way.
He now has about 20 emates and 20 or so chips left and will hold them at the currently advertised pricing til the newtontalkers have had their fill, then either resell the remainders to a broker or ebay them. i suggested he offer three items, an emate with upgrade, an emate without upgrade, and the upgrade alone, with pricing to encourage purchasing of both together.
he's a good guy, and isn't trying anything funny. just wants to move the stuff out, and we can help him with that.
call him yourself - their toll-free line is shown on the website. he's a nice guy.
On Tuesday, May 25, 2004, at 01:44PM, Sonny Hung <sonnyhung_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>Robert Serna wrote:
>Tue, 25 May 2004 11:08 -0700
>
>>so does that mean the current Emates he is selling doesn't have the
>>upgrade? So I guess I'm out >of luck for the Emate (upgraded with memory)
>>for the original price! Rats!!!
>
>Hey Robert - be happy that we have a new supply of eMates that are
>reasonably priced.
>If you read a few posts back you can see that it was never advertised with
>the memory upgrade.
>I happened to discover it in my first unit which cost me $26, my second unit
>however came in without the memory upgrade but fortunately the third came
>with it in there.
>
>In a recent conversation with Erik he mentioned - as I posted that someone
>on the NTLK LIST purchased 10 eMates - he mentioned to me that he believes
>that 6 out of the 10 that person order had the upgrade.
>
>To answer your question - Not sure but I would think that he now understands
>their value. We just discussed this and I posted the ANN after he decided on
>the price - I'm just happy that everyone can get one now at less than the
>$125 that's being asked for by the two vendors selling them - after they're
>gone - you'll have to go get them probably at $125 or whatever they are
>being asked for...
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