Allright Already Micro Center.......
frank freedman
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Only one week in Beachwood to spend some time at Philips Training, and already Micro Center has been picking my pockets; multiple times. The latest for a prop activity board for $26.00. Almost bought the second one on the rack. And other trips and toys........ Must RESIST the UUURRGGGEEE to go back. Almost makes the Tempe Fry's start to look rather Radio-Shackish in the DIY department. Dangerous place to visit!!!
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Have fun! Enjoy your stay! Tell the Mrs., at least you didn't spend time at the casino!!
oh, no. they did not open one of those here?
And I have two more weeks to go!!!!!
Hmm. The consumer is wiling to make a higher investment in his personal capability. You are aware that you received a tremendous value, but to the casual passerby I believe it's a situation where it would be compared in value to other $26 things: a couple SD cards, a roll of solder and some wire, a pizza, or other consumer stuff.
To me, the price is an insult to Parallax, and an unnecessary devaluation that results in only 10-20% more sales to their customers.
If this price were the typical way of setting what a board is worth, there would've been no Prop 1. If Micro Center were our only way to sell Propeller Activity Boards, there would never be a Prop 2.
Retailers...
Ken Gracey
(Sorry, got distracted!)
Sure, you can get a Domino's pizza for $5 and a Papa Murphy's for $12, but if you go to a small business pizza provider it'll be $25 after tip.
Your pizza is junk food and gone in ten minutes; the Propeller Activity Board lets you create ideas and learn interesting things for ten years.
Ken Gracey
Though I do appreciate the value, I do have a few prop chips and boards in various stages of use at home. But this one may enable me to go through the C tutorials more easily I guess..
As to retailers, I keep forgetting to send you a pair of pictures. They were (and this is not changed to date in a 2+ year timeframe) taken at a Fry's and show a row of 40 pin dip props next to the Prop schmartboard kit for the (QFP surface mount) Prop chip.....Go figure.....
Frank
No Ken, the pizza is never gone, only settled into places no gym will ever be able to pry it loose from.........
-Phil
It is a tragedy that there is a subset of consumers (me) that is constitutionally incapable of passing up a bargain. I'll buy five boards at the lower prince but no boards at the higher price. Yes, I feel creepy about it. And yes, I absolutely acknowledge that the 'value' is much higher than the 'price'. But I've never been able to pay R/S $50 for something I know I can get for half that or less. Finding the best deal becomes, in a very real way, part of the education. It must be my Depression-era father's doing. He was a young child in a big family during very tough times. Prosperity and even wealth as an adult didn't change the dirt-poor farmboy in him.
Here in the Chicago area (best pizza in the world) you would be hard pressed to spend $26 on a pizza. I don't mean the 50" stadium sized pizza!
Unless MicroCenter is dumping the prop activity board I'm not sure how they can sell them for $26.
In which case Ken, since RS is doomed to collapsing into something else, move more inventory into Micro Center. As is I find it rather amusing that Limor Fried chose the Prop1 to base her Ybox2 contraption on, and the majority of its components are found on the QS board and its Ethernet daughterboard an interesting compromise can be struck.
But will it make sense? Doubtful. That's why Micro Center needs more Parallax business.
And why is the PAB discounted like that? Good question, I believe, they believe that it, and several BOE Bot related items do not sell and they are discounted. Oddly enough the same is true for the BOE Bot itself, and even the BOE shield as a Bot kit. (Complete instead of separate.)
Offer them something which they'd be foolish to turn down, a multiple pack on the Prop family but they would have to offer classes on using them.
The fact that 90 percent of my Parallax business is based there does not enter into it. I still buy enough directly from Parallax to make up for it.