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Originally Posted by lunged
Thanks for the info, Etienne.
How annoying, though. By $150 worth of books I imagine they actually mean $0 worth of classics available free from Project Gutenberg/Feedbook/etc. 
A luxury box?! Thats pretty lame. And a special pen? Does it work better or make it easier to use? If not, who cares? I wish they wouldn't pull these kind of cheap marketing tricks and just sell us the reader for $399. |
I agree. This just isn't the way to develop a loyal customer base, particularly for a company that isn't well known here in the US. Why announce an MSRP of $399 if you have no intention of selling it at this price? That's just a good way to hack people off.
I checked with Best Buy about the item disappearing and got this reply:
"I contacted our buyer and they stated that the iRex should be available on the website this week! I'm sorry to hear that the price was higher than you had expected. We do have a Price Match Guarantee. The following link can explain that in more detail........"
Of course since Best Buy is currently the only distributor, the Price Match Guarantee is worthless.
Fortunately, as consumers, we always have the option not to buy, and this is an option I now intend to exercise, at least until I've had a chance to check out the Nook. I was pretty excited when the DR800SG was announced, as it seemed like just what I was looking for in a reader. However this price fiasco has compounded concerns I have about the reliability of iRex as a company, and I'm now considerably less inclined to buy from them.