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garygibsonsf · 12-20-2008, 02:12 AM

My (blue) 500 recently died, and it's come to my attention almost every Sony 505 (I figured I might as well upgrade) on Ebay is silver. Same goes for buying it through a UK business (I'm in Taiwan, so I'm thinking of having it sent to a friend's house and getting them to forward it to me here for various reasons including import duty and a UK-based warranty); on the Waterstones, Sony, etc. sites, there's no suggestion you have a colour option that I can see. It's silver, silver, silver all the way. And yet it's obvious if you look at the US sites, it's both colours that are available.

Can anyone in the UK tell me if they actually are selling blue 505's there? Having had a blue model, I think I vastly prefer it because of it's greater contrast to the screen. I'm guessing the vast preference is for the blue, since they cost more on Ebay, and retailers there with multiple units have messages saying they have silver readers, but have run out of the blue.
You should know, by the way, that I'm jonesing bad for my reader. It's true. Life just seems empty and hollow without one of the annoyingly fragile little buggers.

12-20-2008, 02:12 AM	#1
garygibsonsf Addict Posts: 321 Karma: 432192 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Glasgow, Scotland Device: Amazon Kindle Paperwhite	Blue over Silver My (blue) 500 recently died, and it's come to my attention almost every Sony 505 (I figured I might as well upgrade) on Ebay is silver. Same goes for buying it through a UK business (I'm in Taiwan, so I'm thinking of having it sent to a friend's house and getting them to forward it to me here for various reasons including import duty and a UK-based warranty); on the Waterstones, Sony, etc. sites, there's no suggestion you have a colour option that I can see. It's silver, silver, silver all the way. And yet it's obvious if you look at the US sites, it's both colours that are available. Can anyone in the UK tell me if they actually are selling blue 505's there? Having had a blue model, I think I vastly prefer it because of it's greater contrast to the screen. I'm guessing the vast preference is for the blue, since they cost more on Ebay, and retailers there with multiple units have messages saying they have silver readers, but have run out of the blue. You should know, by the way, that I'm jonesing bad for my reader. It's true. Life just seems empty and hollow without one of the annoyingly fragile little buggers.