TCM;218918 Wrote: > *But* you've got a product (SB3), that's been on the ever changing > technology/home entertainment market for 2-3 (?) years. The prices > usually go down after a while (and they have, the 3 lowest prices in > Sweden 2495, 2749, 2789). I find it rather strange that Logitech now > sets a price of 2999 (incl. VAT I guess, but without shipping costs). > Who in Sweden do you think will buy from Logitech, when the Swedish > companies selling for a lower price are all well known? [or maybe I'm > just naive and they will raise their prices to the same level as > Logitech ;-D] I agree, increased price on existing products is quite unusual in this business, it happens from time to time when exchange rate changes though. But I'm not sure this is actually a price increase, after all the US price is the same as before. The reason is probably that the distribution channels has changed, earlier the products was distributed by SlimDevices or third party companies, the prices we see on the Logitech site is based on the Logitech distribution costs.
The reason for the SqueezeBox increase is probably because Logitech feels like they have higher distribution costs to ship the product from US to Europe than what for example Komplett.se have. This feels a bit strange to me, but if you look at some other Logitech products, you can see similar effects (although the differences is a bit smaller): Logitech Harmony 1000: - From Logitech SE: SEK 3699:- - From some different online stores within Sweden: Below SEK 3400:- MX Air™ Rechargeable Cordless Air Mouse: - From Logitech SE: SEK 1499:- - From some different online stores withing Sweden: Below SEK 1200:- Maybe they prefer to sell the product through third party online stores instead of selling it from their own online store ? So unless Logitech recently have raised the Swedish price on all their products I'm not that worried about the SqueezeBox price. It will probably be available from other online stores at the approximately the same price as it is today, and Logitech will try to sell it a with a bit higher price from their online store. The Transporter is another matter though, as mentioned before it seems to have a lot bigger difference between the US and Swedish price when comparing with other Logitech products. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and RandomPlayList plugins' (http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37308
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