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<blockquote data-quote="geolemon" data-source="post: 316893" data-attributes="member: 547749"><p>Thank you... keywords "dealer cost"... not "price"!</p><p></p><p>Actual MSRP was about $1,200 USD, when it was first released in I believe 1994, by 1999, that number may have gone up or down, I'm not sure...</p><p></p><p>Usually MSRP is set about double of what distributors set "dealer cost" at - which some shops actually do charge. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif</p><p></p><p>That would seem to indicate an MSRP in 1999 of about $1,400, which sounds right, usually things inflate.</p><p></p><p>There was some price deflation I'd heard, at least late in the game - and that was simply observed via street prices - I don't believe this was a result of MSRP dropping (implying that PG was charging less), but rather of the shops cutting their profit margins, selling cheaper, responding to a fairly cold demand (I hypothesized my reasons above //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif)...</p><p></p><p>Ordering fewer, causing the distributors to lower their profits and prices to incent purchases...</p><p></p><p>Which eventually caught back to PG, who finally discontinued it. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif</p><p></p><p>When it came out, it was absolutely the most shockingly high-priced subwoofer that I'd ever heard of...</p><p></p><p>Even more shockingly impressive and high priced was a stillborn "big brother" - the very ServoDrive-'ContraBass'-like PG Vortex was supposed to be released, at an even higher price (and even higher displacement, a rotary-to-linear motion converter driving a pair of 15" cones), something over $2000 for MSRP, with a clear acrylic chassis, the prototype was **** sexy... too bad it was never released.</p><p></p><p>I wonder if it was disappointing first year Cyclone sales that led them to not release the Vortex.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="geolemon, post: 316893, member: 547749"] Thank you... keywords "dealer cost"... not "price"! Actual MSRP was about $1,200 USD, when it was first released in I believe 1994, by 1999, that number may have gone up or down, I'm not sure... Usually MSRP is set about double of what distributors set "dealer cost" at - which some shops actually do charge. [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif[/IMG] That would seem to indicate an MSRP in 1999 of about $1,400, which sounds right, usually things inflate. There was some price deflation I'd heard, at least late in the game - and that was simply observed via street prices - I don't believe this was a result of MSRP dropping (implying that PG was charging less), but rather of the shops cutting their profit margins, selling cheaper, responding to a fairly cold demand (I hypothesized my reasons above [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif[/IMG])... Ordering fewer, causing the distributors to lower their profits and prices to incent purchases... Which eventually caught back to PG, who finally discontinued it. [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif[/IMG] When it came out, it was absolutely the most shockingly high-priced subwoofer that I'd ever heard of... Even more shockingly impressive and high priced was a stillborn "big brother" - the very ServoDrive-'ContraBass'-like PG Vortex was supposed to be released, at an even higher price (and even higher displacement, a rotary-to-linear motion converter driving a pair of 15" cones), something over $2000 for MSRP, with a clear acrylic chassis, the prototype was **** sexy... too bad it was never released. I wonder if it was disappointing first year Cyclone sales that led them to not release the Vortex. [/QUOTE]
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