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From: lsf5275@aol.com
Sender: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:45:33 EST
To: <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
ReplyTo: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: OT- NAMM 2011
Making the M4000D is less costly in every regard than a real tron. Chips
are cheap. The profit margins have to be far better with the digital machine and
you can assemble a couple in a few hours. Take it from me. I've built a number
of Mellotrons from the frame up, but I don't build cabinets (yet) and I don't
have to machine the parts. I think the labor cost on the digital machine is very
low. In short, he can crank them out. But if he builds 200 of them, that's going
to be more than Streetly is ever going to make (in my opinion).
I think Markus will sell a bunch of them. But eventually the buzz will die
down, and once all the sounds are out there, there won't be anything to sell to
the customer base. He'll bury the Memotron, but Streetly will sell all of the
hand crafted, lovingly assembled M4000s they care to make. There just won't be
as many of them as there are digital machines.
I imagine many tron owners will also have the digital machine, but by
keeping his price low, he could bury the Memotron.
Here is a graph of the Dollar against the Krona. There is no justification
for a 30% increase in the price of Markus' digital machine. Perhaps the price
increase may prove to be a mistake in the long run.
In a message dated 1/21/2011 4:17:32 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
gabru@comsec.net writes:
Drinks are
all I can afford to bet in this economy…if you throw in the dinner and
airfare….with a night’s hotel stay to recover
that’s a few
grand at least….but win or lose it would be fun….oh that’s right Frank I
forgot you quit drinking….I just saved
at least
$50+….it would have been more but I haven’t quit (yet…in 2 years who knows
:) I’ll leave you with your own words:
“The buzz I am
hearing is, "... here is a Mellotron that I can afford ." I believe that
Markus will sell a bunch of these machines,
no matter what
he named it. In 6 months he'll probably sell more of them than all the real
Mellotrons Streetly could ever make.”
Frank
(#1)
January 20,
2011
Best to you!
J
Gary
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Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 12:49
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Subject: Re:
[newmellotrongroup] Re: OT- NAMM 2011
I will happily
take that bet.
In a message
dated 1/21/2011 1:20:03 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, gabru@comsec.net
writes:
I would
be willing
to bet Marcus makes more money selling those in the next couple of years
than all of the Mellotron and Streetly tape machines
sold in the
last ten.
