« Reply #134 on: March 09, 2021, 01:46:02 PM »
It's not so much the price. It's again a case of putting the cart before the horse and prematurely announcing things when there's nothing concrete. There's no definitive price or concrete time frame and now they are advising that they might not be able to make enough because they didn't expect this many people to submit requests to them.
Sorry but I've been down this road before with Tom. I will give them credit though, at least they are warning people it's going to be a headache ahead of time as opposed to after people have given them money and placed orders.
You were once crazy for this synthesizer. If you still are, why not give Oberheim your name and then forget about it. Maybe you'll hear from them again, or maybe you won't.
I already contacted him. Doubt I'll get anything out of it. lol Honestly with this amount of money involved (about $7K Canadian), I'm not really impressed with "could be" "Maybe" "Possibly" "not sure" coming from a registered business when it comes to pre ordering a product. When I ordered my S2400 from ISLA on a pre order there wasn't any uncertainty.
Look I get it, Tom is over 80 but seriously either shit or get off the pot. It just seems to be a constant reoccurring theme of announcing stuff and then turning around and going "I dunno" "maybe" "Possibly" "Could be" or sometimes nothing at all. SonOf4Voice, Eurorack stuff. All just words and prototypes. Like there is a reason that distributors here dropped him and refused to deal with him because of countless orders that were unfulfilled. I had hopes that he would have surrounded himself with people that would have helped improve his business but it's not looking that way.
There could actually be a very good reason for this. From what I have been told, trademarks are a use it or lose it affair... meaning that if you own a trademark, and you want to maintain exclusive rights to it, you need to demonstrate a reasonable effort to use and defend it. Disclaimer: I am not an attorney and I'm literally parroting back something that I heard an attorney say in a casual meeting, so my interpretation of what he meant may not be 100%. But according to him you cannot just trademark a name and sit on it.... it's use it or lose it.
So it may not be a coincidence that this announcement, along with a tangible intention to produce and sell the instrument, came along around the same time Uli is groping for the name. It could also help explain why the production plan involves a limited number and isn't exactly priced to fly off the shelves.
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