Hi, Les,
Sure, I'd like to have the newer display, but I also appreciate the
generous trade-in offer. Therefore, I am signed up for the transplant route.
Evelyn
At 05:55 PM 9/5/05, you wrote:
Hi,
If you traded in your unit and got $1000, then the cost of a new unit would
be $5000. Remember, the new units cost over $6000. Granted, most of us
will keep our braille displays, but I'd rather do that and pay $2000 than
pay $5000 or something equivalent, just to get a newer display. Braille
technology is very expensive, and given that the original units cost around
$5000, shelling out another $5000 or so doesn't make economic sense to many,
nor could many handle this. I understand the concern about what would
happen to the existing units, but having said that, I applaud Humanware for
offering this upgrade path for its existing users. Remember, they didn't
have to offer this option; thank goodness that they did.
Best Regards,
Les
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Hi Kathy:
I too would like to see a trade-in program rather than a transplant. For
example, I want the new braille display, even though the one in my unit is
perfectly good, I want the feel of the new one. So, my choices are to try
and sell my unit and then buy an m-power bran new, or, if Humanware had some
sort of trade-in program $1000 toward a new m-power as trade for a braille
note in good condition? I would rather trade it in because as you say, it
will be more viable as a perfectly good unit to sell used. Please
Humanware, give this some consideration. This is how it worked with the old
Blazie products.
Sincerely,
Desiree
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>Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 03:10:09 -0700
>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 doi
ng 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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