Re: EDP in Europe

[Geoffrey Smith <geoff.smith15@btopenworld.com>]

Me too its horrible trying to get used to OSX
let alone getting everything to work on it!!!
G
On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 01:35 PM, bk wrote:

> whoops... I send this again
>
> I made a mistake in the subject... sorry I just switched to Mac OSX and this new Mail it's not convincing me...
>
> > Hi everybody I am new to LD.
> > I live in France and it is incredibly hard (if possible at all) to buy looping tools 
> > other than boss RC20 here.
> > After trying for over 2 months, I finally bought my Boomerang
> > from a Swiss dealer because there was no way in FR.
> >
> > Now I am looking for an EDP.
>
> Francois salut
>
> je peux te dir qu'il ya des bonnes nouvelles (au moin je croix... on est jamais vraiment sure...)
>
> the EDP is going to be distributed in Europe by Gibson, who has a new main european dealer
> GibMed, based here in Milano.
>
> I just wrote a test for the EDP for the main italian gear magazine.
> I still didn't see any in the shops but probably they're going to be soon distributed.
>
> You can try ask Gib Med,
> Gibson Med S.r.l. 
> Via Campania 12 - Z.I. Sesto Ulteriano
> 20098 San Giuliano Milanese (MI)
> Italy 
> tel: +39 02 98283838 
> fax: +39 02 98283839 
> Email: info@gibsonmed.com
>
> there's also a web site
> http://www.gibsonmed.com
>
> Anyhow the suggested price in Italy (I guess in France would be the same) are
> 1326,88  tax included
> + 169,26 for the foot controller
>
> the street price here in Milan it's going to be around 1200 euro (for the EDP)
>
>
> > Questions : 
> > - are there any EDP users on LD who are based in Europe (I'm pretty sure I've seen German emails) ?
>
>
>
> me now :-))
>
> but I'm just a debutant. On the list you have people like Steve Lawson (in London) 
> and mr. Claude Voit in Geneve (who was involved in the project of the software Loop IV)
> and they're way out more serious then me in their knowledge of this somehow exceptional tool.
>
>
> If you have serious problem in getting one, maybe we can try to buy one here and send it to you.
>
> Let's see what happens.
>
> let me know and e-mail me in rpivate, if you want, or call 0039-02-54116266
>
> a bien tot
>
> Bruno
>
>
>
>
>
> > - would they have info about dealers in their country who would have or could have rapidly an EDP 
> > + pedal board for sale ?
> >
> > - would there be by any chance somebody from Gibson USA reading this list who would be interested in 
> > helping french people spend their money on an EDP ? french Gibson network seems to be in complete
> > reorganisation (mess ?) and not interested at all in helping (been calling my dealer every 10 days for 2 months
> > now, and he never has info on when he might finally receive the 3 EDPs he says he ordered from Gibson).
> >
> > For info, the tentative prices my dealer gave me are :
> > EDP : 1400 euros = $1624 
> > EDP pedal board : 150 euros = $174
> > which makes the complete thing at $1798.
> > Sounds quite a lot to me (specially when compared to $800 + $100 on http://www.musiciansfriend.com/ )
> >
> > Any info on other european dealers with cheaper prices would of course be more than welcome.
> >
> > Thanks in advance and all the best to all of you.
> >
> > Francois