skeeter: Sounds like someone paid the old price for their empeg

In return, have a tiny bit of sympathy for us old farts! I'm one of the folks that made the leap and bought a "backup" 10GB in early November (outside the 30-day price guarantee) knowing full well that the day would come when some remaining stock would be liquidated in some fashion -- but we didn't know when or how. I said (here on the BBS) that I was doing it with my eyes open and that I shouldn't complain when liquidation day came (I'll try not to!). You pays yer money and you takes yer chances.

It *is* amazing that a lot of folks who have been missing the Empeg experience will get to now for as little as $200. Really amazing. It is nonetheless a bittersweet moment. I completely understand Rob's comments about sadness and about EOL decision being correct. Witness the upsurge in interest upon liquidation, but a product never valued sufficiently (in cold cash terms, even allowing for SonicBLUE ineptitude) to keep it alive. Yes, if I were one of the Empeg folks from Cambridge, I think I'd be sad.

Thankfully, they really are a software company and I expect that both they and we will continue to prosper by their efforts.

In the meantime, if anyone waited until this moment to try to get an Empeg -- but doesn't succeed -- I don't know what to say. You pays yer money and you takes yer chances.

I can hardly believe it myself, but in a prescient moment yesterday AM, I ordered *another* out-of-stock Empeg (a 60 GB) and a tuner. More than anything else, it was almost just a test -- a mad scientist experiment -- of just how wierd the Digital River experience could get. I can't believe I might actually get them!

If I do get the 60GB and tuner, I will likely sell a tuner -- for exactly what I paid for it -- along with the November 10GB Empeg, either through this BBS or eBay. I'm guessing I will try to sell the unused November Empeg for about $150 *less* than I paid for it. When and if I do this, I hope I don't get flamed to death for speculating.