Price rise on MPC Live and X ?

Dioe wrote:Dawsons are a good company, I've bought several things from their shops before now, (electribes/ microKORG) before I bought the microkorg, they guy told me to comeback and purchase it next week, as they were knocking £40 quid off in a stock clearance sale, the price you pay on the site is the price you'll pay

That's good to know.

I didn't want to part with any money until the X drops but I couldn't stomach paying another 250 quid on top of something that's already pricey.

dunno why peeps is so concerned with the price hike; yes its cheeky but most of these companies will off price matching, and there several companies that are sticking with to £799 price.

jpeg wrote:dunno why peeps is so concerned with the price hike; yes its cheeky but most of these companies will off price matching, and there several companies that are sticking with to £799 price.

Yes it's fine if it's just a handful of companies randomly upping the price, but it's a bit odd that they would increase price by 20+% for no apparent reason, so if Akai are increasing the UK/EU RRP it won't be long before they all up the price to £969. At that point there's little scope when it comes to price matching.

MPC-Tutor wrote:

jpeg wrote:dunno why peeps is so concerned with the price hike; yes its cheeky but most of these companies will off price matching, and there several companies that are sticking with to £799 price.

Yes it's fine if it's just a handful of companies randomly upping the price, but it's a bit odd that they would increase price by 20+% for no apparent reason, so if Akai are increasing the UK/EU RRP it won't be long before they all up the price to £969. At that point there's little scope when it comes to price matching.

I think they are just chancing their arm a few weeks ago GAK upped the price and when no one else joined in they dropped it back. As long as one company sticks to the £799 the others will have to follow

some fool on gearslutz said the prices in europe have gone due to brexit; can anyone suggest if there is any validity to this? as I promptly dismissed this idea but perhaps I may have been a bit hasty.

Exchange rate certainly hasn't significantly changed since the original pricing announcement in January. 20% is a massive price increase, even if they were having problems with distribution (which might be somehow related to Brexit), I seriously doubt that would justify charging an extra £180 on the Live. Whatever the reason, it's ridiculous all ways you look at it, especially considering the thing is still running beta software. Price should be going down not up

However I think it's still early days to claim the RRP has risen to 969, not until the majority of shops are charging that.

zangetsu01 wrote:Wooooww..!! I'm so glad that I preordered the motha fvcka..!!

Baxshop NL has raised the price with 300 euros. Do you know how much that is..!!!

It's at 2199 euro's right now and when I preordered it was 1799 euros. I got 10% off with a coupon dropping the price to 1619 euros.

Yep, and the way things look now the delivery will be next week (4 days wait).

Some stores still have the old price, but for how long?

Chillin wrote:

zangetsu01 wrote:Wooooww..!! I'm so glad that I preordered the motha fvcka..!!

Baxshop NL has raised the price with 300 euros. Do you know how much that is..!!!

It's at 2199 euro's right now and when I preordered it was 1799 euros. I got 10% off with a coupon dropping the price to 1619 euros.

Yep, and the way things look now the delivery will be next week (4 days wait).

Some stores still have the old price, but for how long?

How did you figure that out? The X is not coming until July.

Dawsons now charging 969...

I'm soooo happy i've ordered my mpc in january and had to paid just around 730euro / 815 dollars for it. (my local store had it for that price at the beginning)

starmanwarz wrote:
How did you figure that out? The X is not coming until July.

I don't know if you can see the info., but...

https://www.bax-shop.nl/midi-studio-con ... oCpwvw_wcB

Oh look, another retailer posting a random date, how rare. Must be the same info which indicated a March release.

It's not happening, I can guarantee you that. You gotta be patient, it's going to be a looooong wait until July/August.

starmanwarz wrote:Oh look, another retailer posting a random date, how rare. Must be the same info which indicated a March release.

It's not happening, I can guarantee you that. You gotta be patient, it's going to be a looooong wait until July/August.

As much as I want it to be within these couple of days my trust is completely gone.. Best to settle for july/august so the wait is endurable..

For those who had money on a price drop. I think it's not going to happen. All other stores who had the old price up adapted to the new price. One company even claimed that the original price was 2.661 euros, and the price dropped to 2.199,00 euros.

https://www.tonecontrol.eu/akai-mpc-x

I personally didn't expect to see a price drop before launch.

Maybe it will start dropping 6 months or so after release, depending on sales.

I'm gonna wait and see what happens, there's no way I'm paying 2,200 euros though.