hi
i agree!
why do we have to ahve our old braille idsplays int he new m power, why cant
we transplant i.e. get a new version of the product i.e. the m power and
trade in old unit?
regards, will
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kathy Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 11:10 AM
Subject: [Braillenote] What's The Purpose of Transplanting?
I'm confused by the "Transplant" program people keep talking about. As I
understand it, you send in a perfectly good used voice or braille note
with a braille display and they take its braille display and put it into
an MPower for you and according to Jonathan, junk the rest of the
perfectly good unit. Now I may be letting my recycling nature get the
better of my undrstanding, but this seems terribly wasteful, and I can't
come up with an excuse or even a justification for such waste. I could
understand Humanware taking the used units in on trade towards the new
mPower then reselling the refurbished units at a discount to benefit
customers who could not afford the full priced new units, to benefit the
person trading in the unit, and to benefit themselves by thereby giving
them two sales and the pr of helping two customers.
Instead what they are doing is wasting perfectly good voicenote
equivelants just to remove their braille displays, and move those displays
into otherwise new mPowers thereby creating a highbred new/used unit with
the Braille Display already somewhere along its continuum of wear and
devaluation.
Now if as we've been told, the "Classic" units still have value, will
still be upgraded and have things developed for them, etc. etc., then this
surrender for scavengering of display program is nothing but a wasteful
means to compensate for the fact that the braille display isn't removable
leaving a usable unit behind which could then be sold by the person
wanting the new mPower. Doesn't this original unit have more value
financially if sold to someone who wants it than simply that amount which
goes towards the price of the mPower because it provides the used display
for the unit? Wouldn't it be better or at least just as good for the
individual wanting the mPower to first sell their original unit then apply
part of that money towards the new mPower they choose thereby having a
completely new unit? By selling the original unit that buyer would
benefit by getting a unit at a lower price. By applying that money the
mPower buyer would have the benefit of an all new unit. And by doing so
the future used market would not be confounded with a mess of old display
older display and new display models being sold at a later date. Why is
Humanware creating this chaos in the first place? Why aren't they simply
taking units in on trade as an option, reselling them after bringing them
up to spec as refurbished units, and thereby keeping the market clean for
new mPowers as all new units aging as a whole device rather than
componants? If the mPower customers don't care that they are throwing away
a perfectly good voicenote, couldn't Humanware come up with a coverplate
for where the Braille display was removed and leave these scavenged units
as working non-Braille units to be donated where needed or something
useful?
Is this foreshadowing a loss of a market for these type of devices in the
near enough future that Humanware doesn't care that they are creating
these highbred new/used mPowers because a resale market of mPowers or any
other braillenote version is not going to be there very shortly if, in
fact, the upcoming screen reader technology for off-the-shelf PDA's and
Smart Phones is successfully combined with portable Braille displays? Why
are they deliberately damaging the resale market of the new mPowers?
Why is Humanware removing the number of Braillenotes from the used market
that are becoming doners for their displays alone rather than selling them
as used units for the cost of the credit towards the mPower thereby
benefiting people who want them? Is this simply a matter of figuring if
these used units are off the table, people will have to buy the new
versions directly from them rather than either used units from individuals
or refurbished units from Humanware? Where is the benefit in this policy??
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