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The Rigol DS1052E
icemagic:
Hi guys,
I think I found our culprit: http://www.emona.com.au/
https://secure1.ozhosting.com/emona/shop/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=72
They've got the gall to charge GST on top of that horrific price as well!
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: icemagic on January 07, 2010, 08:31:16 pm ---Hi guys,
I think I found our culprit: http://www.emona.com.au/
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They have been an official Australian Rigol dealer since they that early days, they have to play by the Rigol rules.
We actually have no idea if it's even an Australian company that complained, the odds are probably not, as it's not just Australian buyers that are affected.
Dave.
Andrew:
It could even be Rigol themselves. In my experience Rigol is a strange company[1]. It could well be that Rigol decided they want to separate themselves from the cheap manufacturers and to establish their products are "valuable", so want to establish a minimum price barrier. Or official distributors complained to Rigol about the cheap offers and asked questions how these sellers could buy the oscilloscopes so cheap from Rigol.
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[1] I have already written elsewhere that I have trouble with Rigol regarding their DG1022 function generator PC software, so I am biased (In the rare cases I get answers that don't make sense. Latest Rigol claim: suddenly there is a "new" DG1022, but for which they also have no own software or so. I all doesn't make sense.
icemagic:
I wonder if this breaks any competition laws. The guys selling the oscilliscopes for $388 on ebay certainly weren't dumping. I can buy it even cheaper if I used a drop-post service. I'm not sore or anything, I ended up buying the DS1102D for ~$1400. Its just annoys me when someone can claim a seller is doing something illegal, when they themselves are illegally stopping stock from hitting the market.
dexters_lab:
i very much doubt the dumping was the ebay sellers, else they'd make no money!
more likley rigol were dumping them out to chinese suppliers who then sold them on ebay which then prompted resellers outside china to get a bit hacked off. Maybe rigol wanted to stir up some excitment about the 1052? maybe they wanted to shift a load of stock during a global rescession? Well whatever it was, it certainly worked... i bought one!
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