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Kronos Price Increase?

 
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xus75
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2021 8:00 pm    Post subject: Kronos Price Increase? Reply with quote

It seems Korg has updated (increased) the prices of most of its keyboards. Normally prices drop, but Korg has gone the other way. I noticed this with all the Kronos line-up and also with the SV2.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2021 9:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don’t know how Covid has affected consumer goods in Russia, but things that are usually easy to buy here in the USA are sometimes impossible to find. I wonder if that’s why prices are going up.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2021 10:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Aactually, Kronos prices did went up. Pandemic affected most likely.

https://www.sweetwater.com/korg-kronos/series
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 4:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Those prices are insane. I don't remember what I paid for my 73' but if it were anywhere close to 4G's I think I'd still be playing my Triton. That's insane to ask that for a 10 year old keyboard with 10 year old tech and no real updates.
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Liviou2004
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 10:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kronos slowly fades away from european catalogs.
The biggest online shop, Thomann, provides only Kronos 61. But its price is quite normal.
So the Kronos will probably disappear.
Either replaced by the Nautilus or by a new big flagship.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 6:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Skymusic representative of Korg, in my country, all summer and here in September only have Kronos LS and Nautilus. They do not have any version of Kronos 2 at all. Something strange is happening?
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 9:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I went to my local music store yesterday for the first time in two years. I don't know what inventory they had in the back, but on the showroom floor they had a fair number of keyboards you could demo and play.

There were some notables that were missing though. No Kronos, MODX, FA-0[678], or Montage. But they did have Nautilus, Fantom and stage pianos across all vendors.

I did notice a few *really* good unadvertised deals on older models which now have an upgraded version, or current version keyboards that aren't selling very well. So there are some good deals to be had - you just have to do the groundwork and ... Go Shopping.

Almost forgot how fun that was, to go shopping. The exhilaration of seeing the keyboard you'd only read about and seen videos of until now - and now you see it and play it in person. To see a great price on the product you don't really need, but you're tempted now because it's such a good deal. You deliberate for half an hour and finally walk out the door without buying anything. But it was fun, and you learn some things about the products in person that you never would have discovered online (like keybed feel).
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blazerunner
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 29, 2021 3:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pedja wrote:
Something strange is happening?


Perhaps it has something to do with the chip shortage.
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danatkorg
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 29, 2021 5:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://time.com/6073233/shipping-costs-surge-price-hike-goods/

Prices for many things are going up, and most of that is the skyrocketing cost of transportation via container ships. The pandemic is part of that, but not all of it. See the article above for details. For example, it now costs almost 5.5x as much to ship from Shanghai to Rotterdam as it did a few years ago.

I'm not in sales, but I'm told that most musical instrument companies have increased prices across the board over the last year.
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