Originally Posted by
Scott Shepherd
I don't have an issue with it being posted, but I do take issue with Trotec as being painted as someone that's doing something that every other manufacturer does as well. I can assure you, we paid a lot more for our Epilog than others did, and we paid less for our ULS than others did.
It's not Trotec, it's ALL of the big manufacturers that have sales reps. If you were a sales rep, you'd be trying to get all you could too. That's how they make their living. No one's forcing anyone to buy anything. If you aren't happy with the price, don't buy it.
Like I said, this has been happening in trade shows since trade shows started. It's not unique to the laser world.
We bought a plotter. Price before the show was $3500. Show price was $2700. We asked if we could get the show price without going to show. Nope. Had to go to the show.
We are looking at large format printers. Asking price is $25,500. I've seen people negotiating them down to the $12,995 area. If I hadn't known that, we'd be planning to spend about $20,000 on one.
In all fairness, to balance this out, we'd need show pricing from Epilog and Universal.