Hi If they toss out the old one (because the hardware doesn't work with the new firmware) and send you a new one (at the new price) then the numbers make some sort of sense. I have a suspicion that the price quoted is pretty close to the single piece price for a brand new unit.
Bob On Mar 16, 2013, at 11:49 AM, Magnus Danielson <mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org> wrote: > On 03/16/2013 04:41 PM, Bob Camp wrote: >> Hi >> >> The upgrade price sounds more like "we swap out the guts" than a firmware >> squirt. Does anybody know if the hardware in the new(er) versions is the >> same as the old(er) parts? > > Rather, we don't want to bother with it, so we price it out of the market > such that we can sell the new gear instead. This might not be the most > customer friendly approach, but a business strategy that can be selected. > Part of it will certainly be standard overhead anyway. It would be nice if > they had a curtesy-price thought, and see it as a for of PR thing to keep > customers happy. > > Cheers, > Magnus > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
