Rigol oscilloscope prices have sky-rocketed!
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From: miso on 1 Jan 2010 19:44 On Jan 1, 7:01 am, Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealm...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > On a sunny day (Fri, 1 Jan 2010 05:57:24 -0800 (PST)) it happened > "m...(a)sushi.com" <m...(a)sushi.com> wrote in > <b1b6edcc-fbeb-439e-bd13-7a2f3b8f8...(a)a32g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>: > > >I was thinking of the Bitscope 100u, mostly because it is isolated > >from the PC (less hash) and they support Linux. I have a great > >distrust of Windows and USB due to driver issues. > > That seems to be only 40 meg samples / second. Yes, not a great scope, but I have real bench equipment. I have nothing 12V portable. The Rigol doesn't buy me anything that I can't get with a used Tek DSO. The 40MHz limit would be fine for my portable purposes.
From: Jamie on 1 Jan 2010 20:44 Jon Kirwan wrote: > On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:24:02 -0500, Jamie > <jamie_ka1lpa_not_valid_after_ka1lpa_(a)charter.net> wrote: > > >>$362.90 here > > > I see $411.96. > > Jon You looked at the wrong model, that was to the right in small icon the one I looked at was down the page a bit in full view. I really don't think they would give me a different price. I just did a check with Netscrap a IE, this is strange, Netscrap does not even show URL after a google search for "DS1052e", IE does show it as the first one in the list and the price is full view is still $362.90 "12%" off. That's whole sale price.. I really don't think they're feeling sorry for me and giving me a break!
From: gcd on 1 Jan 2010 22:59 Hi all, I think the problem may be that an aus distributor may be complaining to rigol that international sales are infringing on local sales. One US distributor refuses to sell to aus due to such an issue. Greg "David L. Jones" <altzone(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:xwi%m.87$Wl3.0(a)newsfe11.iad... > After 12 months or so of steady decline on prices of the Rigol DS1052E > scope on eBay (and other places), with them being around the US$400 mark > or less for some time now from countless ebay sellers, the price has > suddenly jumped up to US$550 or more from all sellers. There has also been > a sudden and drastic reduction in the number of sellers for this scope. > > I've heard that one ebay seller has been acused of "dumping" the scope at > low prices by another seller and has had their listings removed. > > and a quote from a cancelled ebay listing: > "We'd like to let you know that eBay has ended an item you were bidding on > for breaching of one or more of our policies. As it's important that eBay > maintains member privacy, we can't tell you exactly why the listing was > removed." > > Dealextreme still have them for US$400 though, better get in quick... > http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.30573 > > Dave. > > -- > --------------------------------------------- > Check out my Electronics Engineering Video Blog & Podcast: > http://www.eevblog.com >
From: Greegor on 2 Jan 2010 00:00 David: You said the seller wrote to somebody: > <quote> > "Hello, Please don't worry, the problem is, an another seller has complaint > by ebay that i'm selling the rigol oscilloscopes at a dumping price" > He then offered to complete the original low price transaction outside of > ebay. Has it occurred to you that this is exactly the kind of story that an ejected SCAMMER would tell to rope in a few more suckers to send them money outside of the aggressive protection of eBay/Paypal? How would you know if the seller is a SCAMMER or not?
From: David L. Jones on 2 Jan 2010 00:33
Greegor wrote: > David: > You said the seller wrote to somebody: >> <quote> >> "Hello, Please don't worry, the problem is, an another seller has >> complaint by ebay that i'm selling the rigol oscilloscopes at a >> dumping price" >> He then offered to complete the original low price transaction >> outside of ebay. > > Has it occurred to you that this is exactly the kind of story > that an ejected SCAMMER would tell to rope in a few > more suckers to send them money outside > of the aggressive protection of eBay/Paypal? Could be, but not my problem, I'm just passing on what was said. Buyer-beware, as always. If you are worried then buy from DealExtreme or some other known non-ebay seller. Remember, this is not a one-off seller thing, dozens and dozens of (legitimate) ebay sellers of this scope have suddenly dissapeared. There is somethign else going on. I have not heard of a single case of anyone being scammed on a Rigol scope, and I can tell you I get a lot of feedback on this issue though my blog. Doesn't mean it's safe of course. > How would you know if the seller is a SCAMMER or not? Err, not too hard. If the seller has a rep of selling the same gear previously (ebay and other forum history can show that), and most of the sellers have suddenly disappeared (presumably) due to ebay pulling their auctions for some competive(?) reason, then it's more probable than not the seller is not a scammer, they are just caught up in whatever is happening here. Dave. -- --------------------------------------------- Check out my Electronics Engineering Video Blog & Podcast: http://www.eevblog.com |