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Originally Posted by Muttly

That's pretty meaningless. Are you suggesting that only if a product is being sold in every market in the world will anyone notice that it is seriously faulty?

That's absurd.

What’s absurd is your inability to understand fewer people buying something reduces the odds that one of them will find this forum and post about it. Seriously this is simple logic.

That's beyond absurd!

You are taking your personal speculation that there are only a very small number of items available as a proven fact and then making a deduction from that unproven speculation.

Sorry to be blunt but that really is ridiculous.

No. I’m pointing out that remaining stock of a discontinued product indicates low demand for the product. Sorry to be blunt but you’re being foolish.

Yet more weird and wonderful speculation.

It could just as easily be the case that people have bought them, checked them, and are completely happy with them, and hence have no need to report anything here.

It's a well known fact that people are many, many, times more likely to review/post about something that does not meet their expectations than something that does.

It’s not weird speculation that lack of advertising and lack of anything pushing customers to a device limits sales. Saying otherwise is not only foolish, it’s being willfully ignorant of how marketing works.

Further that no one from the forum has posted about this availability does indicate a lack of interest. Again this is basic logic that even a simpleton should be able to follow. The fewer people here interested in a KA1 the less likely anyone posts about them being available, and the less likely anyone here is to buy one (lack of interest + lack of awareness = less sales).

In reality I think that anyone spending that much on an obviously highly valued device is going to immediately give it a proper test to ensure that it is working properly, rather than waiting, and possibly letting the device go out of warranty.

At least if they have any sense they will.

Speaking of wild speculation...

If it’s a back up device it might not even leave the box. Why set something up if it’s only going to be used if your primary device breaks. You decrease the resale value should you choose to sell it, and increase the odds of breaking it.

Further the lack of interest versus the current line of Kobo devices would bring some serious doubt to the “obviously highly valued” comment. Look at how few people here have even responded that they’d want to get one, and keep in mind this forum is a disproportionate representation of the market, the forum leans toward specific devices, the general market buys what is advertised to them. But again this is basic marketing knowledge that anyone should have.

I'm not saying it's impossible, but it seems to me unlikely in the extreme that Kobo would knowingly sell what are effectively faulty products, and equally unlikely that there would be no internet trace if they were.

Anyway, all this pessimistic speculation is pretty pointless to me as I will have concrete evidence, one way or the other, fairly soon.

People’s first step is contacting customer support, not going to a niche sub forum on a niche forum neither of which have any direct ties to the company that sold them a product.

There’s plenty of evidence that lithium ion batteries degrade over time if not stored properly. It’s questionable if the places these were stored were kept at ideal or even good temperatures. Especially since it’s cheaper to not temperature control a room when/if nothing stored there is going to complain or cause immediate issues, such as a server crashing, or something melting and making a mess.

But I’m sure we can count on corporations to spend money needlessly.