Greets....
What kinda ticks me off is the following:
Here is South Africa, we are also quite quick to adapt new technologies, and
no, we don't have elephants roaming in the streets. Our cell phone networks
are some of the best, for instance. I got into minidiscs two years ago,
before mp3 players got real big. Portable minidisc recorders were then going
for about R3500 (R8 to the us dollar). Then the prices dropped quite a bit.
I paid the same for my recorder as you would in the UK. Now suddenly the
prices have rocketed to R4500 for a Sony Mz-R900 (that is like $562), just
because resellers here know it is a specialty item, something different than
a mp3 player. This is really killing the minidisc this side. I wish we had a
place like www.minidisco.com locally, who can sell equipment at a reasonable
price. I go to the UK every now and then, and that is where I buy most of my
stuff these days. It is actually cheaper to import stuff, than to buy it
here, just because some shop owners want like a 100% profit margin. It is a
pity, because all the people here buying mp3 players, don't know what they
are missing. The actual discs here are cheap, at around $3 for a 80 min
disc.
Anyway, just my 2c worth...:-)
Gerard Naude
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