[Nate the great]

Originally Posted by jbjb

He got one for free as a review unit, which I assume was the original intention.

The balancing out is between keeping that free one, and selling it and buying another. Assuming he got less than the new price for the resale, he's actually lost out slightly (he's gone from having a monitor for no cost to having a monitor for the difference between what he got for the review one and the new price).

Compared with the scenario of the purchaser of the review unit buying from new, the purchaser of the review unit has gained (he got one for the lower price), and the manufacturer sees no difference (one review unit given away and one sold at normal price in both scenarios).

I paid a thousand dollars for a Paperlike from the first production run. Like almost all units from that run, mine died an early death.

Dasung gave me a 2nd-gen Paperlike, and then a Pro (3rd-gen). I eventually sold the 2nd-gen Paperlike and netted $400.

I'm still in the hole, but at least I minimized my loss.