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jimknopf · Platinum Member Joined: 17 Jan 2011 Posts: 3374

Concerning Thomann: I buy gear from various resellers, but from my view they happen to have the most skillful staff I know among all resellers I have dealt with so far. I don't care if they are small or or big. In my experience they are normally clear cut, but not arrogant.

We all can't name exact numers for Europe in comparison to Japan and the US.
But IF the fedback in internet tells something, it really seems to me that Europe got significantly less in the first delivery. In Germany the available numbers, just as those announced for the near future, are just ridiculous. I still hope that the announcements until October/November aren't completely true.

There always has been more demand than supplies with new instruments. I just think that in this case the gap between demand and delivery is TOO big over here, and that communication from the view of possible European customers just like resellers has been below all standards since January.

madbeatzyo111 · Guest Joined: 13 Jun 2011 Posts: 379

In the field that I work in, a HUGE part of the success of a product lies in having the capacity to satisfy the demands of your customer. It boggles my mind that Korg is not getting enough Kronos to everyone who wants one yet. Are they waiting for people to give up and get a XF instead???

Here are a couple possibilities why this is happening:

1) Korg underestimated the demand. I think this is unlikely given the huge amount of interest long before roll-out.
2) Korg is having production problems. Possibly likely given the timing of the earthquake in March.
3) Korg is copying Apple's approach of deliberately holding back supply at roll-out to increase the hype, perceived value and the feeling of exclusivity about owning the product.

I really hope it's #2, because #3 is totally lame and slightly evil in light of the tramplings that occurred in China over the latest iphone.

danatkorg · Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 10:20 pm Post subject:

madbeatzyo111 · Guest Joined: 13 Jun 2011 Posts: 379

I didn't mean to insult, so I take back my fired comment.

I do happen to work in hardware manufacturing of both large and niche markets. I don't work in the sales department but I know it's sometimes an art to forecast demand accurately. I also know it's a much happier situation when you're able to get product out to everyone who wants one, to put it very mildly. So I can guess what it must feel like in the Korg offices (especially production and sales) right about now because I've been in that kind of situation before where the execs really put the screws on the little folk.

Regarding Apple's practices, I don't work there so I don't have hard proof of course, but this is the consensus of a lot of people in the industry. For the record I don't believe Korg does this.

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Korg decided to roll out a little earlier with the risk of not having enough product vs having enough product on hand but delaying the roll-out by 6 months. Since it's a niche market as you say, I think it makes sense that Korg did it this way. However it'd be nice if Europe could get more stock if possible; they are already paying much more markup.

Kevin Nolan · Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 12:03 am Post subject:

Dan -

Your pointer to a constrained roll out in all parts of the world is appreciated thanks. Perhaps due to the devastating earth in Japan?

I would ask you to take on board however that to many of us this release has been a little strange - I was genuinely stunned to hear that Thomann has take just 4 in to start with (had you asked me to guess I would have thought that, say, 100 would have been conservative - they really are huge in Europe). So while these forums do not harbour many conspiracy theory type threads, the release of Kronos has been a tad unusual and has gotten many of us wondering what's going on. So don’t be too hard on us for postulating in this instance.

We realise you are in a unique position in knowing a great deal you can’t always divulge - so any info you provide is appreciated.

Kevin.

Megakazbek · Junior Member Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 92

LyonsT · Junior Member Joined: 27 Jun 2011 Posts: 70 Location: UK

Well let's not get nit picky because we are bored of waiting, it will come when it comes, the world isn't specifically Japan is not how it used to be bless them.
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michelkeijzers · Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 9:14 am Post subject:

For dutch readers: there seems to be a 73 version demonstration ready at 'music house Da Capo' in Meppel. Anbody know a 61 version available for either demonstration or sales? I never saw an available Kronos for sale anywhere in the Netherlands yet.
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QuiRobinez · Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 11:35 am Post subject:

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RKfan · Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 11:57 am Post subject:

Interesting that nice small shops now have some Kroni (just got an e-mail from a store in Colchester) - but its bit weird that big organisations such as DV don't have any in stock yet. Is this a deliberate policy?

@UK
Have any of the Bonners machines been delivered - and did you get your free monitors as promised?