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Kim wrote: > >Whether poor people think it is expensive or not doesn't really > >matter, because no matter what price it is they don't ever buy it >anyway. This sounds like a very cynical take on things. Getting things into the "impulse purchase", or even the "minimal thought" price ranges certainly DO increase sales...especially for "take it or leave it" type specialty items. I think this is the reason the Boomerang never really "took off". It was about $200 too expensive. Likewise with the EDP. The high entry price restricts it to people who REALLY WANT it, and that means it'll never be a big seller. Besides that, I think you're wrong that there are "cutoff prices" for certain types of things. Perhaps my proof is anticdotal, but it's my personal experience. If the EDP had been $500 a couple of years ago, I probably would have bought one instead of the Repeater that I did buy. Why? Because that's as much money as I had at the time and the Repeater was available at that price. The features were cool, but I didn't really even know what I wanted in a looper at that time, I just wanted something a little more powerful then the borrowed DL4 I was using. The extra $200 for the EDP is the primary reason I picked the Repeater. I've since learned to like some of it's other features, like multiple tracks, pitch shifting, and persistant loop storage, which would differentiate it, but the simple fact that the EDP had such good support on this forum would have pushed me in that direction if the price had been the same. Now, don't get me wrong (especially my more crabby sounding post from last night). I UNDERSTAND why the EDP costs what it does. It's a specialty item, sold into a small specialty market, with low demand and high development costs. That means the price will be high. That doesn't mean I like it that way. It's just sad to me that more people don't see the point, to where it could sell enough to be a good selling item. At that point, the prices could drop and it'd be viable to update the 15 year old hardware and bring it up to date. In the mean time, it's take it or leave it 'cause it's the only thing available anything like it, and that's a bummer. Greg __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com