Did you pre-order the Helix Stadium?

[timbuck3]

This reminds me of the stadium for some reason

 

[timbuck3]

This also is how I feel about the stadium. It would be a great add song


I like the tones on this song

 

[bucephalus]

This also is how I feel about the stadium. It would be a great add song


I like the tones on this song

Yeah Neil Young is famous for his love of all things digital.

 

[Mooselake]

Wow 1rush ticket or helix stadium?

2 tix for < 1/2 cost of stadium XL (plus sales tax in my state).

 

[Digital Igloo]

Not to mention the cost of health insurance, car insurance, electricity, not using electricity, food, water, gas. Everything but the wages. Go figure.

Yep. That's what so few people understand. It's not just that the cost to manufacture a product (parts, tooling, labor, shipping, etc.) is higher. These [things we're not supposed to discuss] increase the prices on everything required to run a business, because the companies selling electricity, plumbing, water, computers, software, coffee, printers, light bulbs, and hundreds of other things also have to raise their prices... which causes a feedback loop, because everyone's raising prices on everyone, which forces everyone to raise their prices to maintain a profit, which... ugh.



Say you're eight years old and you ran a successful lemonade stand last summer. Each cup cost 50¢ in parts (lemons, sugar, water, plastic cup, etc.) and you sold it for $1. This summer, however, the parts are 25¢ more expensive. Except you can't just increase the price by 25¢, because the cost of wood, nails, posterboard, markers, and canopy cloth has increased as well. Plus, if the profit is used to buy candy or video games or Fortnite skins or "6 7" stickers or whatever little kids buy these days, that's all gotten more expensive too, so to maintain the same relative financial success as last season's lemonade stand, you have to charge more than $1.25. But you're a good kid and feel bad about overcharging your neighbors, so you simply increase your profit margin to match your cost increases, which in this case is 50%.

Then the annoying cat lady from next door stops by and shrieks "$1.50 for lemonade is a corporate money grab! Why can't you just eat the [thing we're not supposed to talk about] and charge $1 like you did last season? After all, the customer is always right!"

You'd toilet paper her house on Halloween night, but, y'know, toilet paper's expensive for an eight-year-old...

 

[laxu]

Say you're eight years old and you ran a successful lemonade stand last summer. Each cup cost 50¢ in parts (lemons, sugar, water, cup, etc.) and you sold it for $1. This summer, however, the parts are 25¢ more expensive. Except you can't just increase the price by 25¢, because the cost of wood, nails, posterboard, markers, and canopy cloth has increased as well. Plus, if the profit is used to buy candy or video games or Fortnite skins or "6 7" stickers or whatever little kids buy these days, that's all gotten more expensive too, so to maintain the same relative financial success as last season's lemonade stand, you have to charge more than $1.25. But you're a good kid and feel bad about overcharging your neighbors, so you simply increase your profit margin to match your cost increases, which in this case is 50%.

Then the annoying cat lady from next door stops by and shrieks "$1.50 for lemonade is a corporate money grab! Why can't you just eat the [thing we're not supposed to talk about] and charge $1 like you did last season? After all, the customer is always right!"

You'd toilet paper her house on Halloween night, but, y'know, toilet paper's expensive for an eight-year-old...

 

[paisleywookiee]

but, y'know, toilet paper's expensive

yup.

 

[EOengineer]

yup.

 

[banned]

Many thanks to @eggpl@nt who helped me with a 15% MF coupon. I was able to get the unit ordered!

 

[Rewolf]

Yep. That's what so few people understand. It's not just that the cost to manufacture a product (parts, tooling, labor, shipping, etc.) is higher. These [things we're not supposed to discuss] increase the prices on everything required to run a business, because the companies selling electricity, plumbing, water, computers, software, coffee, printers, light bulbs, and hundreds of other things also have to raise their prices... which causes a feedback loop, because everyone's raising prices on everyone, which forces everyone to raise their prices to maintain a profit, which... ugh.



Say you're eight years old and you ran a successful lemonade stand last summer. Each cup cost 50¢ in parts (lemons, sugar, water, plastic cup, etc.) and you sold it for $1. This summer, however, the parts are 25¢ more expensive. Except you can't just increase the price by 25¢, because the cost of wood, nails, posterboard, markers, and canopy cloth has increased as well. Plus, if the profit is used to buy candy or video games or Fortnite skins or "6 7" stickers or whatever little kids buy these days, that's all gotten more expensive too, so to maintain the same relative financial success as last season's lemonade stand, you have to charge more than $1.25. But you're a good kid and feel bad about overcharging your neighbors, so you simply increase your profit margin to match your cost increases, which in this case is 50%.

Then the annoying cat lady from next door stops by and shrieks "$1.50 for lemonade is a corporate money grab! Why can't you just eat the [thing we're not supposed to talk about] and charge $1 like you did last season? After all, the customer is always right!"

You'd toilet paper her house on Halloween night, but, y'know, toilet paper's expensive for an eight-year-old...

Are you saying that even though Stadium is shipped direct to other countries, and that [cannot be mentioned] hasn’t changed in those countries for items from the far east, that the application of [cannot be mentioned but only supposed to apply to USA] is impacting significantly on the price elsewhere in the world?

 

[EOengineer]

Are you saying that even though Stadium is shipped direct to other countries, and that [cannot be mentioned] hasn’t changed in those countries for items from the far east, that the application of [cannot be mentioned but only supposed to apply to USA] is impacting significantly on the price elsewhere in the world?

Yes.

 

[Lysander]

Finally manage to preorder my vanilla Helix Stadium from Thomann, so count me in!

 

[AlbertA]

I have an MF coupon if someone wants it.

Claimed.

 

[JiveTurkey]

I have an MF coupon if someone wants it.

Do the charge you immediately? If not; PM me

 

[AlbertA]

Do the charge you immediately? If not; PM me

They don't - sent!

 

[JiveTurkey]

They don't - sent!

Thank you sir

 

[AlbertA]

Thank you sir

 

[Mikael Dez]

I am glad that I don’t want the XL or I’d be freakishly trying to move money to make it work lol

I hope I can get the “small” Stadium when it releases, and I’ll be following all y’all’s posts in the meantime

 

[timbuck3]

Do you guys think the stadium prices are gonna drop six or eight months after it’s released? I know they did that with the Quad cortex and the fender TMP. But I don’t know if I see that happening with line 6 for sure it would not happen with fractal.

 

[Lysander]

Um, neither the QC nor TMP dropped prices 8mo after release.