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this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2025
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Feels a little pricey to be successful. A pity.
It’s an extremely niche product, to be fair. The general public was never going to buy it, and diehards will buy it at a premium price. When you consider the small manufacturing runs they’re probably planning, the price seems less ridiculous IMO.
I wouldn’t pay $300 for it, so I don’t claim it’s a “good value”, but I can understand from a mathematics of manufacturing standpoint why the price is something like that.
You can still get perfectly working original ones for less. Why would anyone want to spend more on a knock off?
Better value than a cocaine or Warhammer habit, probably not as good value as a good chainsaw
Lmfao, what a scale!
They cost $2,000 (in 2025 $) when they released in 1982. Sounds like a deal to me!