Who cares about the second hand value of their units? I know of no-one who is even willing to sell their unit. And even if there were, when there will be no more Empegs left that can be bought through the officcial channels, their value will increase automatically. If it was an 'original full price Empeg' or a 'discounted Empeg' will not matter. So that's a pretty moot point.
Otoh, if SonicBlue was to give such a mentioned discount to existing users, I bet lots of them would buy another one (or even two or three), so in that case everybody wins. The users, because they would have their backup of their beloved Empeg, and SonicBlue because they wouldn't be left with a load of stock that they can't sell (or at a very slow rate). Heck, it might even open their eyes so they would see that there really was nothing wrong with this unit before they canned it, except for it's price.

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