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sam.spoons

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DL1608 down to €766
« on: May 23, 2015, 03:24:39 PM »
Wot it says  8) The DL1608 is €766 on Thomann's website, that's £543 which is less than I'd hoped to sell mine for....... Looks like I'll have a nice little backup desk for the foreseeable future  :lol: :thu:

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Re: DL1608 down to €766
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2015, 04:32:34 PM »
Hopefully, if that is the general trend of things its big brother and the competition are all getting cheaper as well. The X32 Producer at £1322 is a pretty decent price if you want a flexible desk with lots of options. Its always difficult when you are an early adopter not to pay a bit more and not get the second hand value.

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Re: DL1608 down to €766
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2015, 08:33:29 PM »
In July last year the Producer was £970, so cheap I nearly bought one instead of the Rack!

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Re: DL1608 down to €766
« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2015, 03:07:21 AM »
Then you have to ask why hearing aids keep getting more expensive?   Everything else is getting cheaper. 

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Re: DL1608 down to €766
« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2015, 09:20:02 AM »
In July last year the Producer was £970, so cheap I nearly bought one instead of the Rack!

Whoa, didn't spot that... probably because I wasn't paying that must attention to the alternatives last year. That would have been a full on bargain.

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Re: DL1608 down to €766
« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2015, 06:04:22 PM »
All the X series have gone up a lot since then. Compact by around £300 (now £1603, last year £1328) and the rack is now £994 when it was under £850 last year. They don't look like getting cheaper in the near future either. Glad I've got mine now. Maybe an S16 for completeness but otherwise I'm sorted  8)

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Re: DL1608 down to €766
« Reply #6 on: May 24, 2015, 08:33:45 PM »
All the X series except the rack just got a healthy price cut here in the states :P .

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Re: DL1608 down to €766
« Reply #7 on: May 25, 2015, 10:54:39 AM »
Bizzare  :facepalm: they definitely ain't getting any cheaper this side of the pond  >:(

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Re: DL1608 down to €766
« Reply #8 on: May 25, 2015, 01:11:34 PM »
Bizzare  :facepalm: they definitely ain't getting any cheaper this side of the pond  >:(

I hear ya, the US prices are a bit cheaper than the Canadian prices too, as a rule, due to the exchange rates.  :(
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Re: DL1608 down to €766
« Reply #9 on: May 25, 2015, 01:32:28 PM »
Typically we pay around the same in GBP as you do in USD. Exchange rates do fluctuate but generally that represents a full 50% more over here. Bizzare for a product designed in the UK for a German company and manufactured in China (shipping from China to the US is more expensive than from China to the UK). Taxes account for some of that (20% VAT against 4-15% US Sales Tax I believe) but not for anything like the whole amount  >:(