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Originally Posted by pitcher23
I understand that manufacturing and marketing may not leave them much much wiggle room in setting a price, but to my wallet that is neither here nor there. I think the digital reader looks like a fantastic device and would love to own it for the pressreader function alone, but that price is just too steep for me. Can I afford it? Yes. Can I justify spending that much money on specialized device? No.
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Exactly my position too... my willingness to pay 699 for a better device is much lower than it was to spend 650 on an inferior device, less than a year ago, for reasons I can't easily identify, I still suspect some irrationality behind it... and that probably will be what many people think... but unfortunately, there are scenarios where this won't hurt IRex (and in the end urge them to drop prices again)... like for example when at 599 they couldn't manufacture as many devices as were ordered... in that case a price increase is a sensible (for the company) measure to dampen demand that is higher than what they can satisfy... but until we hear from the company about the reasons (which probably will never happen), all we can do is speculate...