ETD prices

[J Patrick Draine]

Terry wrote:
>I bought my first PC about 4 years ago. The price was about $2,500, and
>included the monitor and >printer. That same package today would cost less
>than HALF! As a matter of fact, today you can get much >more for a lot
>less than even a year or 2 ago. So, with this in mind, I wonder why ETD's,
>namely the >SAT, which IS a computer,  has not gone down in price. It must
>have something to do with supply in >demand, and the fact that ETD's are
>not a mass produced consumer product, but rather a specialty item >for
>professional tuner/techs. But, still, I would hope to see prices coming
>DOWN, not up.


Um, and you reduced your tuning fees by half in the same period?
The SAT is not mass produced in a sweat shop in Indonesia. Yeah, I'm sure
the chips and some of the boards are subcontracted but the SATs are put
together by the Sandersons and a couple of reasonably happy employees, in
Chelmsford, MA. The cost of living here in Massachusetts is alot higher
than a Third World nation.

A friend, neighbor, and happy customer of the folks at Inventronics,

Patrick Draine