[sdiy] (OT) Borg Filter on Ebay

[Grant Richter]

> 
> Musical instrument manufacturers actually play into the hands of this
> phenomena by announcing next years products a year early. Now no one wants
> to buy this years product (black with red LEDs) because they are waiting for
> next years product (silver with blue LEDs). Which, by that time, they will
> have announced the next years product (a software plugin) and the hardware
> with blue LEDs will seem old hat...
> 
When I think about it, it is the manufacturers themselves causing the
problem. Since products are announced so far in advance of manufacturing,
people have been trained to assume that it is not in production when
announced. So when you first hear of it, you assume it is not yet available.