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Re: Big VEX sale at RadioShack
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Originally Posted by Rick TYler
My personal best guess is that VEX will get sold off to a smaller reseller that can stick with it despite its small (for RadioShack) sales volume.
All in all, if you want VEX stuff, I'd buy it now. Most of the possible reasons for the sale are not good for us robot people.
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I'd tend to agree. I think RS could market this online and as an educational tool via other avenues and keep up some sales volume. But do they see this or are they looking at the current bottom line.
I'll admit that if I had kids, $300 is a lot to spend for something like that.
Of course if VEX becomes a permanent part of FIRST and it explodes similarly to FLL, then they may have a base for continued production.
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15-03-2006, 11:42
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