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| charliex:
The courts have generally sided with the OEM's on grey imports, there are some laws that offer protection for the OEM. But they can make effectively their own law, since its simply contractual with their distributors/dealers. |
| rossmoffett:
We have the 100Mhz Rigol models at school. Knobs fell off of two of them and they were sent back to the dealer for repair, they came back with a USB stick containing a firmware upgrade. I don't recall the exact steps, but the front USB port is compatible with USB flash drives. I just plugged it in and selected the file somewhere, I think. Wonder what would happen if you were to use the 100Mhz model firmware in a 50Mhz machine? |
| rossv:
--- Quote from: madworm on January 28, 2010, 05:54:18 pm ---I'm officially pissed off now. I've just tried to order a rigol DS1204B in the US and was told by the shop owner that rigol has officially forbidden them to ship to germany! WTF !?! European shops are way too expensive. I don't feel like paying a penalty fee just because I don't happen to live somewhere else. There's a price difference of about 450$, and that's _after_ paying import tax. Seems like I will have to look for a different brand. --- End quote --- Have you tried DealExtreme? I bought from them and had no problems. You should use a credit card for safety and make sure you select most expensive/secure shipping option. You probably already know, but in Germany you will be forced to pay extra Zoll for something of that value :-(. http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.30573 Ross.. |
| madworm:
Yes, I know about import tax and such. Still it would've been a steal. The DS1204B is sold for 1850€ (about 2600$ US) in Germany. I just don't feel like subsidizing Rigol sales elsewhere by paying 'a little extra' for the scope here. The DS1052E costs about 830$ US in Germany. |
| rossmoffett:
I couldn't take it anymore.. bought one. ;D I'd love to have the 100Mhz model that I've used at school, but really all of my analog development is limited to well under a Mhz anyway. |
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