HayesWeighsIn
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Gosh, don't I know it!! Haha
The VPI Turntable Thread
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Slimwhit33
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Hope you got it! It's gone!
HayesWeighsIn
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Damn. That hurts. What an unbelievable deal. I missed out on a Prime Scout for $1650 a couple years ago with a 3D arm.
@Slimwhit33 wasn’t me, unfortunately! Haha. Not convinced I want a unipivot, and not quite ready to make quite that big a TT investment at the moment.
I just lost out on a (still) insanely good deal for an UltraDeck+M on eBay just a few minutes ago. Normally I wouldn’t go for it, but the price was so ridiculously good that I had to at least try. Honestly hoping somebody here got it, cause they still got an absolute steal!
Slimwhit33
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I was watching that one too, just to watch it. It was cheap!
Angsty
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It hurt, but not nearly as much as losing out on the local Luxman PD-171 in January.
But, it helped sharpen my focus on what I really wanted and how much I realistically could pay to help me land my PD-151 Mk2 in March. It ended up being less than the 10-year old PD-171 and a better fit for my setup. Not cheaper than that VPI Classic 3, though!
Mather
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Pricing emails have gone out, speakers and old TT soon to be listed. The Classic Signature is happening... at some point... soonish. Also my isolation platter is both 4 inches too small and also about 50 lbs shy of the necessary weight rating so I guess it's going to soon find itself under, uh... my microwave or something. I really have no use for it as I've already got isolation feet under every single other thing I own because I went a little cray cray.
SnowmaNick
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Under your laptop maybe?
Mather
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I'll put my Blu ray copy of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy extended edition on it. Should be good for an extra line of resolution or two.
SnowmaNick
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Depends if it was the Super Deluxe Ultra 16k Producers cut or not. Anything less and Frodo steals your ring GPU.
HayesWeighsIn
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You going for a gimbal or unipivot? Or just a deal!? Haha
Mather
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I very rarely see any for sale up here on the used market and there's no way I can import one without getting annihilated on duty so it'll likely be a new model so yeah, Gimbal 10 inch because I think they pretty much all come with that unless you specifically ask to change it out. I saw a few open box ones last night out of Music Direct and a few other places but shipping a 68 lbs box, and the duty, wouldn't make it worth it.
Mather
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First price quote I've gotten isn't actually as bad as I had expected. In US funds it would be $5400 before tax and shipping. Of course in CAD that's $7400 which looks a bit worse when you just sit and stare at it and then nervously re-check your bank balance every ten minutes for about 12 hours straight.
theflattire
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I would keep an eyeball on VPI's website and consider driving to NJ.
They have a B-stock Classic Sig on sale right now: Classic Signature (B-Stock)
Mather
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Yeah, like I mentioned I have been checking but several issues there. One is duty, I could drive it back and lie but if I declare it it'll be a fortune. Other being after exchange it's only a couple hundred dollar difference. Also they don't have any in walnut, BUT YES, there are deals to be had for sure. I'm still working on one up here. It's possible I can get it for dealer pricing, maybe... possibly...
theflattire
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Interesting.
What happened to free trade and all that?
Is duty the same if you order from a VPI dealer in Canada?
I've heard customs is pretty strict, by the book strict.
Hope you find something!
Mather
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Free trade is a farce for individual consumers. Basically anything I bring into the country purchased outside it's walls will get hit with additional taxes over what we've already paid in the States. So add about 13% to the cost immediately. If I order within Canada there is no duty as I'm buying in my own country however prices are adjusted to take into account companies having to import etc. But it's not a direct translation, our prices are lower in a lot of cases even when you take into account the shipping, but our dollar is only worth 75% of the US dollar currently. So that's why $7400 Canadian isn't actually a terrible price when you consider that the current MSRP in the States is something like $6300 USD which even before shipping costs and taxes equals $8500 CAD. So the price I'm getting up here is actually $1100 cheaper than the current US pricing. It's strange, it varies with all these things...
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Joe Mac
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Free trade very rarely works on an individual basis for a person importing a thing. It’d give a competitive advantage for overseas retailers in countries that either don’t have VAT/sales tax or charge much lower amounts on it. Particularly when there’s a land border that’s very easily crossed. You’d put indigenous retailers out of business based on circumstances outside their control.
