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What do you think of this price gouging? The Korg ARP 2600 originally sold for what, $3,900? Here it is with an asking price of $6,500, with the words "Don't bother trying to lowball or BS." LOL.

https://milwaukee.craigslist.org/msg/d/ ... 07840.html

Does anyone know the price of the Behringer 2600? I saw this week in a YouTube clip that it is now in production, but the clip didn't give a price.

Supply versus demand.

There are other options: TTSH & Behringer 2600. I'll probably get the latter - all their other synths have been very faithful to the originals.

I'm hardly surprised. Wait until the people who bought those limited edition Moogs flip theirs for 6 figures.

Thank goodness for Behringer and Dotcom.

No buyers after 2 months, though.

I don't know what's going on lately. People have been listing stuff at incredibly high prices. Maybe its the solitary time at home??? I've been looking to buy some accessories for my equipment. In a couple instances people have been listing things for twice the price, sometimes way more, than they were listed at couple months ago. All is well when the items are selling....but, they aren't. As soon as one does, that becomes the standard, though. It's all silliness. I'm waiting for those prices to come back down.

Hyde wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 18, 2020 7:11 pm

I don't know what's going on lately. People have been listing stuff at incredibly high prices. Maybe its the solitary time at home??? [...]

It's existential panic, more like it -- sell now before it's not worth a penny anymore.

Stephen

I hadn't thought of that. Seems a bit extreme. Especially with noone biting.

Hyde wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 19, 2020 7:38 am

I hadn't thought of that. Seems a bit extreme. Especially with noone biting.

Maybe someone will, eventually.

It's like desperately clutching at straws.

Stephen

Seems like the original poster was talking about the newer Korg version of the Arp 2600, which I'm seeing online for about $3900. But it seems that this is a limited edition product with a wait list, and new ones may be in short supply and may not even be available, which could explain a $6000+ asking price for a used one. The original Arp seems to be going for about 10 G's or more -- even as much as over $13,000. Crazy! If Behringer can make one, have it be reliable and faithful to the original, and sell it for $600, then that will be worth a look!

SciNote wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 23, 2020 3:12 am

[...] The original Arp seems to be going for about 10 G's or more -- even as much as over $13,000. Crazy! [...]

They seem to be advertised for that much but I have never seen any of them fetching that kind of silly money on eBay. The occasional 2600 that starts at one US$ seems to fetch something between 5,500 and 7,500 US$, depending on the state the instrument is in and what type of filter it has. More realistically, I'd say anything beyond 8,500 US$ is utopian unless it's a Blue Meanie.

Stephen

ppg_wavecomputer wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 23, 2020 9:14 pm

SciNote wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 23, 2020 3:12 am

[...] The original Arp seems to be going for about 10 G's or more -- even as much as over $13,000. Crazy! [...]

They seem to be advertised for that much but I have never seen any of them fetching that kind of silly money on eBay. The occasional 2600 that starts at one US$ seems to fetch something between 5,500 and 7,500 US$, depending on the state the instrument is in and what type of filter it has. More realistically, I'd say anything beyond 8,500 US$ is utopian unless it's a Blue Meanie.

Stephen

I think this analysis is spot on.