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JimK
139
Oct 2, 2016
soooooo, I'm just curious why anybody would buy them from Massdrop and pay $219.99 + $8.25 = $228.24 and wait until late October before they are shipped when Amazon has them for .75 cents more and you can get them in 2 days. They are $229 on Amazon with Prime, today, and MD shows a $399.99 retail price? ........ even if you get 5 people to commit, ppl are going to wait a month just to save $11.? I guess ppl do, smh ~ but to claim $399 is disingenuous
c'mon now MD, don't treat people as if they are stupid, really
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Llspoon
21
Oct 2, 2016
JimKMD is becoming mostly about the XX series of cans you can't get anywhere else. Off the shelf products like these seem to be filler items in the meantime.
Fastnbulbous
27
Oct 2, 2016
JimKTo be fair, the MSRP is the MSRP. What you're referring to is the "street price" which of course is going to be fluid with a model that has been out since 1980. I agree that the best thing Massdrop has ever done was take a much-loved but discontinued headphone, the Denon AH-D5000, and reincarnate it as the Fostex TH-X00. I'm sure they'd love to do more of that too, but they have to convince companies to participate. I don't see Sony letting them at the MDR-R10 design, but perhaps smaller companies like JPS Labs, Audeze, HiFiMAN or MrSpeakers might at some point.
JimK
139
Oct 2, 2016
FastnbulbousFast, I'm not arguing but the MSRP as everyone (should understand) that is an arbitrary, made up number from the manufacturer to make the actual price *look good*, *look like a bargain*........... sales 101
MD's whole concept was and or should get back to, is a bunch of people voting on and then pitching in to bribe (convince) a manufacturer to tweak a product to something an audiophile community might be interested in and find somewhat unique by throwing so many promised orders at them in one shot that the manufacturer is down with it ......... all I'm saying is ........ MD is better than (this) offering old, shelf bought products at zero savings, or should be better than trying to make our community believe the MSRP is actually a real thing and we are now somehow being blessed with a real value, a steal.
And, MD should be better than throwing out basic, shelf bought products, like this one and enticing people with a potential $20 savings off the real market (not MSRP) but the potential of saving $20 in a real life setting if everyone would just band together and throw our weight on this ~ but ~ looks like they already found one poor sap who is (at this point) going to wait a month to save .75 cents .......... smh
My point? ............ the MSRP thing? ........it's patronizing
Fastnbulbous
27
Oct 2, 2016
JimKI'm not an expert on how the market works, but I do believe there's more to it than that. I think most companies would very much like to stick as close to their MSRP as they can. There are many headphones that are sold right at their MSRP for quite a long time (see Audeze, HiFiMAN, etc). Part of that is related to limited availability of course, and a bigger company that puts out more volume will inevitably lose control over the street value. When the 880 has been available for 36 years, there's a huge surplus of used product available that affects things too. Basically, I don't think it's meant to be patronizing. And as far as I can tell, everything on Massdrop results from the community voting for that product to be made available. I don't know why people would vote for the 880 when it's already available at deep discount. I'm stumped there.
Halladay
10
Oct 2, 2016
FastnbulbousYou wrote:
"I don't know why people would vote for the 880 when it's already available at deep discount."
I agree, they are $229 with free shipping from Amazon.
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