Hi, You wouldn't get a new unit with a new braille display on a trade for $2000. Best Regards,
Les -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of will Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 6:27 AM To: Braillenote List Subject: Re: [Braillenote] What's The Purpose of Transplanting? 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?? > > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
