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Originally Posted by VentureForth
My guess is August 7th. My conspiracy theory is that Augen thought they had a good thing going back in May when they were going to put out a color ereader for half the price of the big boys. But when the Nook and Kindle took a price cut, Augen panicked - distributerd what they had on hand, bugs and all, to KMart which then sold them at a discount. Augen needed the cash flow so they figured a discounted ereader, upgradable later, could get the cash to start flowing. $149 was no longer an option, so $99 then $89 became the price. If they can get the bugs worked out and build a decent reputation, they'll thrive. If not, those of us lucky enough have something usable, but not spectacular. Again - just a theory.
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I ordered mine from Heartland back in May when they claimed a MSRP of $199 and they had it on sale for $159 less a $30? rebate. Luckily for me Heartland kept delaying the ship date so I cancelled the order and ordered from J&R for $129. Luckily again for me, J&R couldn't deliver and then I saw on this site about the Kmart $89.99 sale. So I cancelled the J&R order and went to Kmart.
So VentureForth, you might be correct and anyway thanks to this site for saving me $40 less sales tax.
Hopefully, Augen will make a go of it although there can't be a lot of profit at the price.
I'm an old IBM mainframe engineer who remembers when we use to get $1.00 for a byte of memory and if we had a one meg mainframe computer we could walk the dog.