PKN prices huge drop!?? |
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csg
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This - no one in the right mind would drop prices because they had a popular product. If you can improve your margins then that's for you and your business, anyone who gave that away would probably get a few questions from their accountant / share holders / investors... more likely they are struggling to sell outside they local territory. I quite like the PKN's I've seen and owned, but they are not a touring standard product for the modern world of audio production, so will always struggle at that price point. They could have a small chance in the MI and DJ market, but then you have to fight the big boys in that market
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“The fact is this is about identifying what we do best and finding more ways of doing less of it better”
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U.Viktor
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Really? I learnt in the school that the cost of product is a function of numbers sold, more numbers lower cost! |
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snowflake
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the Hungarian central bank has been holding interest rates at a low level to stimulate domestic growth - this tends to weaken the currency
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I H8 PKN! ;)
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concept-10
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U.Viktor
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When we bought ~20+ of them already got those good prices 6 years ago. Total couple hundreds went accross our two companies, for install and others mainlyfrom the XE series as well as XD. My dealer prices did not changed a lot just very few percent (probably I got already the best)
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concept-10
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Good for you, but that is not what we are talking about, we are talking about a massive price drop now, why? and don't give me the volume nonsense as that makes no sense at all on a business level, so now answer the above points without referring to you and your deals.
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snowflake
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if you are complainging about lower prices you really are a glass-half-empty sort of person
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concept-10
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Not complaining, from a business level a massive sudden price drop across a range of products rings alarm bells, so let's not question the price drop and go and buy a whole load of PKN, if the situation is as it looks and even this panic sale cannot save them then you have a whole lot of new amps that now have no warranty or back up, I hope I am totally wrong, to not question this means you are a blikers on type of person.
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toastyghost
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Yep, this is the best way to say 'we don't have the proper sales volume to support a real dealer network with after-sales care' and piss off all the people who handled distribution before.
I bet Andy at Blue Aran is bloody chuffed to bits with this new webshop and 'trade prices' for all sold directly to the end-user. Given past experiences with PKN repairs, and lead times, I wish anyone interested the best of luck. You can have the best equipment in the world, but it isn't a viable product until it's got all the extra stuff around it that makes a real company. |
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U.Viktor
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I do not know the England situation. But from our experience the average service cost of any XE-XD-LC amps made by PKN, after the warranty period were bellow 10000FT ( 30EUR or 25 GBP :-) Service times are always bellow five working days! But I am in Hungary of course. There are several companies in my sight have replaced not only the aging Macrotechs but also Powersoft K series by the new XE10000 and XE6000 amplifiers! The Powersofts are not as reliable as advertised (just like the I-Techs from Crown) and difficult~expensive to repair! The situation is that you could have 2pcs of XE10000 (2* 5000W@4R!) on the price of a single K10/20 and much better to have only 4R loadings not going down to 2R. The X series plays nowhere outside of closed government projects since collapsing after the first beat and ways too expensive. X4 advertised as " 20000Watts amplifier" while in the reality can do just little more average power than the small PKN LC4004U
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DJ-Dulux
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Looks to me that they just trying to cut out the distributors, the price on the web site is still more than I paid for the last couple I bought. Not sure if this price reduction is real.....
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