Guest sipart Posted February 18, 2011 Report Posted February 18, 2011 4 port USB hub £5-10 from anywhere you like except PCW Modified Plate Stand £1.99 from Wilkinsons Already supplied with Vega HDMI Port £0 Speaker output £0 Charging £0 Total to do everything this dock does £7 - £12 Poundland regularly have mini 4 port usb hubs.....for a quid!!! but looking at the pictures on the PCW site thats one great box you get with it....... ;-) at 40 quid its a rip off. 20 is fair.
Guest warriorscot Posted February 18, 2011 Report Posted February 18, 2011 You can buy really nice wooden book stands in blackwells that would work brilliantly with a vega and do full range of motion for only £20 charging £40 for plastic with no range of motion and some USB ports is a rip off. The vast majority said £30 was the maximum with an extra charger and £25 would have been the best price. You don't even really have to pay for a stand a basic DVD spindle from a 50 disc pack works fine with no modifications. You are never going to get good sale on something at that price it's 16% of the cost of the vega for a glorified USB hub.
Guest m_liddell Posted February 18, 2011 Report Posted February 18, 2011 Adding my voice to the general tone of outrage here. Advent/DSG, hang your heads. There is no way this thing costs you any more than £10 to buy in my opinion, even if it was as much as £20 you are going for a massive mark up there. I had a lot of respect for you for putting out a tablet that made the price of all the competition look completely out of touch, you just lost that respect. Its hardly transparent practice to put out a cheap device that is popular and then stiff the customer base you built up by having artificially high priced accessories. My vote was for £20, do you think I will buy one of these? I would be surprised if the wholesale was more than £5 for dock. Are Advent taking a leaf out of HPs book and ripping off consumers with accessories. Screen Protector was poor. Not even as hole for camera Case is over priced and falls apart And now a basic dock that does not come with psu..... poor form DSG
Guest montage Posted February 18, 2011 Report Posted February 18, 2011 £40 for a dock for a £250 product.. you been taking tips of steve jobs? And no psu either.. even for 30 after you give out your voucher code over the next few days nooooo thanks!! Ps don't take the success of your product personaly.. it really wasn't anything you did.
Guest Cwmdu86 Posted February 18, 2011 Report Posted February 18, 2011 29.99 thanks. 39.99 no thanks you can keep it.
Guest andycap Posted February 18, 2011 Report Posted February 18, 2011 I will not be getting one at that price ! After the grief some of us had getting the vega, they should give us one for free :D
Guest HunteronX Posted February 18, 2011 Report Posted February 18, 2011 29.99 thanks. 39.99 no thanks you can keep it. I agree with this, and with many of the comments here too: £30 would be the maximum I would pay for this, simply because of what's inside, and what extra things you would get if you bought it. The usb ports can be bought for 5 to 10 pounds easily (as a hub), and the hdmi port is already on the device anyway. To be honest, £20 seems a bit much now...
Guest dave65 Posted February 19, 2011 Report Posted February 19, 2011 no way will i be buying one at that price to be honest i wouldn't pay more than £20, i dare bet they bring a discount voucher out pretty soon. also i would have thought that with the vega having such bad viewing angles they could have at least made it adjustable so with that in mind it is pretty useless for my needs :D
Guest stevesilk51 Posted February 19, 2011 Report Posted February 19, 2011 @vegaaccs, I think from these comments you can gather that the message is a resounding "NO WAY" Can you get in contact with the person making these decisions and apply some gentle pressure? :D People have got their backs up now and even £29.99 is looking dodgy. Most went with a Vega for value and to avoid the Apple shackles and Apple prices! Thanks Steve
Guest rferrett Posted February 20, 2011 Report Posted February 20, 2011 At the risk of spamming i'll post what I posted in the other thread here too:- Ultimately though I don't really see the point in getting mad about it. They asked us what price point we thought, the community had a very consistent response and they priced it above that price point. My guess is they wont really sell that many, and they will probably drop the price in a month or so have sold a few to early adopters. One thing though, we are in a bubble of early adopters who are quite savvy about our tech and members of a switched on, online tech community. We really don't know how many of these Vegas were sold to just ordinary users over the web who might be quite up for paying forty dabs. Similarly Vegas are in stores next week. I guess form the DSG point of view it makes absolute commercial sense to try and extract an additional premium to start with when potentially for the first time a significant portion of Joe Public might be getting their Vegas in stores. Remember the DSG business model for computing equipment is to sell the actual devices dirt cheap and make money on the accessories. That is why we got our Vegas so cheap! Also, Vega Accessories have got form for offering the community discount codes so I dont think it is outside the realms of possibility that in the next couple of weeks Vegaccs might come online at MoDaCo and offer us a five or ten pound discount code. If they don't I am sure that sooner or later a compatible doc will appear much more economically on fleabay. Remember the device has many iterations and the doc is being made by the PIANO people so is probably compatible with all the different Vega/Mobii/PIANO clones out there.
Guest vegaaccs Posted February 21, 2011 Report Posted February 21, 2011 I have explained in the other dock thread about this. There was a mistake with the pricing last week which will be rectified tomorrow.
Guest MonkeyBoy451 Posted February 21, 2011 Report Posted February 21, 2011 I have explained in the other dock thread about this. There was a mistake with the pricing last week which will be rectified tomorrow. welcome back from your vacation and glad to see that its being rectified. I'll certainly be buying one now. :D
Guest OwenRW Posted February 21, 2011 Report Posted February 21, 2011 I have explained in the other dock thread about this. There was a mistake with the pricing last week which will be rectified tomorrow. I know i siad this in the other thread, but that's excellent news. Will it be available in store, or online only?
Guest worto03 Posted February 21, 2011 Report Posted February 21, 2011 I have explained in the other dock thread about this. There was a mistake with the pricing last week which will be rectified tomorrow. thanks, might get one now but a bit disappointed that no PSU comes with it - anyone got a link for a decent extra PSU? Depending on how much that is I might get one and the dock? Cheers, worto.
Guest joefoxphoto Posted February 21, 2011 Report Posted February 21, 2011 thanks, might get one now but a bit disappointed that no PSU comes with it - anyone got a link for a decent extra PSU? Depending on how much that is I might get one and the dock? Cheers, worto. At that price it should come with a PSU. I stupidly bought the full price screen protector when I first got my vega. What a waste of money that was (having to use a hole punch to clear a hole for the camera - and ballsing it up - twice ;-) ) Although I can see the need for the dock and a decent case the quality has to reflect the pricing.
Guest wraggy Posted February 21, 2011 Report Posted February 21, 2011 On line at a massive and seriously ridiculous £39.99 !
Guest celyn Posted February 21, 2011 Report Posted February 21, 2011 Thanks vegaaccs. Cracking customer service
Guest Use it Posted June 20, 2011 Report Posted June 20, 2011 Hmmm - currently out of stock on-line. I'd love an easy way to prop this up/charge/use a keyboard/keep cables tidy at the back. Does anyone have any idea if it will be back online, or which shops have stock?
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