rajm;580938 Wrote: > (Boom) hmmm - can't remember where I read it. Maybe was just a rumor? > I figured it must be true b/c both the boom and classic are selling at > hefty discounts. > > Didn't realize about the VFD -- that makes sense. > > I'll never understand why the boom didn't take off. I think its been 1 > year and half since I got mine. At that time it was featured in a > variety of stores (J&R, Best Buy, Tiger Direct) then slowly > disappeared. I was sure it was going to be the next big thing...
The Boom sold very well when it first came out: the Radio perhaps a bit better (since it came out a couple months before Christmas rush and at least in the US BestBuy and Amazon seemed to be in some pricewar about it with great discounts). Boom sold a HUGE number of units at Circuit City as they were liquidating all their inventory for bankruptcy... there are people who bought several of the things. As for now: BestBuy is evil: they charge vendors to place things on their shelves. Even when they were pushing the Radio like mad last winter, they tended to bury them in back or just plain out-of-stock them despite newspaper ads with the prices. Logitech apparently wasn't paying them enough to get them actually on the shelves. I'll stick with retailers who want to make money selling me things instead of taking kickbacks. Circuit City may have sucked, but at least they had some influence in making BestBuy pretend to care about customers... so I'll just buy from Amazon or direct from Logitech, but, yeah getting things in stores would be useful for them, but I can understand not wanting to pay for shelf space and pay more for "good" shelf space, and still more for "prime" shelf space. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82446 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
