RE: Unbelivable! - truly unbelievable!

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, I *know* you're right, - 2 or 3 years ago when I bought SONOS
kit, I
regarded it as "fairly pricey, but absolutely worth what it cost"
and I'd
completely agree that in comparison to your AMX, Imerge & Crestons of
this
world, it is still a pretty compelling competitor in terms of a
price/performance comparison with those top-tier ranges...

However....

When you've been made redundant due to the current economic climate, one is
forced to re-assess one's value judgements, and justify every single penny
of expenditure. That coupled with the fact that I guess we've become
accustomed (spoiled perhaps?) over the last couple of decades to the prices
of most consumer technology spiralling unrelentingly downwards (look at the
price history of computers over the last 2 decades!)....

I guess I'm just disappointed because now my next couple of zones are even
further away... :-(

Paul G.


-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Phil Harris
Sent: 21 July 2009 08:49
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Unbelivable! - truly unbelievable!

Absolutely Paul - The company I work for has had to do exactly the same
onl=
y
a few months ago, component costs tend to be tied to the dollar rate and so
when you're sourcing anything from outside the UK then changes in exchange
rate bite very hard.

Remember that the price you pay for something isn't the price that the
manufacturers sell it for - there's dealer and distributor margins as well
as shipping costs which again have taken a hefty upwards jump (levied as
additional fuel surcharges by the major carriers onto business accounts) in
there as well. :-(

Not exactly sure I agree with your "it's already a premium priced
product"
though - it's pretty much bargain basement really! What is there that does
=
a
similar job, and that is still available as a commercial product for the
en=
d
user to buy and install without "hacking about", that is cheaper?
Squeezebo=
x
Boom? There's not a lot cheaper than it is really but there's a hell of a
lot more expensive. ;-)

Phil

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> Of Paul Gordon
> Sent: 21 July 2009 08:13
> To: UKHA Group
> Subject: [ukha_d] Unbelivable! - truly unbelievable!
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> SONOS are actually *RAISING* their prices!!! - in this economic
> climate!?!?
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>  *   The price of a ZP90 will increase from =A3249 to =A3279
>  *   The price of a Zone Bridge will increase from =A369 to =A379
> Much as I Like SONOS, - it is a fantastically designed & executed
> system, it is *already* a premium price product - certainly from my
> recollection of all SONOS discussions that have ever taken place on
> this list, the high-price if the units has pretty much consistently
> been the number 1 complaint from UKHA'ers... (Granted it's not in the
> same bracket as some high-end kit that we all drool over!)
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> I guess I'm just annoyed because I *do* want to purchase more units,
> but now I'll have an even harder job getting it past "credit
> control"....
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> Paul G.
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