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Originally Posted by NatCh
I'm afraid you are mistaken.  Sony never sold a single PRS500 outside the U.S. All the extra-U.S. 500s were sold by third parties, either individuals, or retailers. I'm given to understand that Sony is a bit perturbed with those retailers for their international sales, actually. You are correct in that Sony knows that there are a lot of 500s outside the U.S. (they couldn't help but be, since the follow MR!), but as I said earlier, they were bought outside official channels. The distribution agreements I mentioned above mean that they can't recognize those units in any case: they're disavowed.  It was 7,500 pages, and they probably did manage that under a specific, unlikely set of circumstances -- it's Marketing. Sure, it's annoying, and borderline deception, but it's also not any secret. If you plan to avoid every company that uses it, you're not going to be buying very much at all.  Heh, somehow I find I'm not too bothered by electrical waste that causes a dinky 1,800 mAh battery to take more than three weeks to run down. I have 2,500 mAh AA rechargeables that run down in less time than that just sitting on a shelf!
You have to decide what's best for you to do with early adoption. It's always a bit painful on the 'Bleeding Edge' and if you don't want to ride it, no one would blame you for it in the slightest. |
OK, this was a quick reaction during my first anger. I paid 300 EUR for that thing so $ 100 is close to nothing anyway currently. For the future I'll properly stick to the European market.
Regarding the green part, I didn't talk about the battery but the whole reader. Say, if 50% of the reader owners trade in their reader, what will happen with those?
Anyway I find this forum a nice and friendly place, so I'll try to avoid angry rants in the future.
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