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HP future RPN? Message #1 Posted by Tony David Potter on 12 Dec 2002, 11:27 p.m. Please take this with a grain of salt. One of the students who frequents my website gave me the following e-mail in response to a repair request for a 32SII: --==-- Hello, Unfortunately, it is not a repairable calculator. There is a website that currently still has some of the 32SII's: www.samsoncables.com, but he also is selling them at an inflated price. You will be glad to hear that we should be coming out with a new scientific RPN calculator sometime next year. Hopefully it will be comparable to the 32SII. It is important to me that I resolve your issue. If you need further assistance, please reply to this message. I will be happy to help you personally. Sincerely, Amanda HP Americas Consumer e-Support --==-- I'm currently trying to look in on this, so mail in questions regarding your HP-32SII with "broken screens" or "nonworking buttons" and see if we can get a bit more information about this new HP RPN calculator

Re: HP future RPN? Message #2 Posted by Frank on 13 Dec 2002, 8:11 a.m., in response to message #1 by Tony David Potter Putting this with Dave's request for info it is beginning to sound like a reality for a new scientific RPN hopefully Programmable (Graphics again, I wonder? or two line!) Wonder if the major retailers will stock? I noticed that the Office supply stores are up to $79.xx on the HP12C since Wal*Mart discontinued HP's for the 3rd or 4th time. Frank

Re: HP future RPN? Message #3 Posted by John Ioannidis on 13 Dec 2002, 5:14 p.m., in response to message #1 by Tony David Potter So now we know who one of the reptiles who have been inflating the hp32sii prices is.

Re: HP future RPN? Message #4 Posted by db(martinez,california) on 13 Dec 2002, 8:56 p.m., in response to message #3 by John Ioannidis john; this is just my opinion on your post and i would like to hear what you have to say on mine. i think that since samson cables is a regular business one would expect them to sell the rest of their stock for what the market will bear. i am assuming here that they did not talk hp out of all the remaining units and then jack up the price once they had the market cornered. remember that we lost educalc and all their services not because jim & co lost interest but because they needed to make enough money to eat. i guess what you class as a reptile is someone who jacks up the price by two or three hundred percent. in my humble opinion, i would class him as a parasite not for making a profit but for sneaking in between the producer and the user, buying every 32 or 42 or whatever he can find and then and extracting his pound of flesh while providing nothing. is part of what got at you that a lot of the same people would have bought the same calcs anyway - and a lot cheaper? if so then me too. this is of course just human nature - for a lot of humans. you and me don't have to like it though. - d

Re: HP future RPN? Message #5 Posted by James M. Prange on 14 Dec 2002, 2:09 a.m., in response to message #3 by John Ioannidis In my opinion the cause of the inflation of the prices of these calculators is simply that many people are now willing to pay the inflated prices. Should someone (dealer or not) who happens to have the calculators available for sale sell them at the former price? What price would you ask for one? Regards, James

32Sii high prices Message #6 Posted by Randy Sloyer on 14 Dec 2002, 8:34 a.m., in response to message #5 by James M. Prange It is a business for some, not a hobby. Just because the guy in question is a HP distributor, it does not mean he has an unlimited supply of 32sii's. If you do a eBay search on the buyer "cedmunds", you will find the supply. Yes, they buy (snipe, actually) them on eBay and sell them from their web site as new and refurbished at X2 or more markup. Supply and Demand. Plain and Simple. Capitalism and the free market at work. Something wrong with that? I don't think it fair to vilify someone who simply recognizes a temporary opportunity. If you have been following prices, you should know that the 32Sii average price has fallen quite a bit lately. Sure the NIB blacks still fetch a lot of money (Why?? Just because they are new ? IMO it doesn't make them better, give me an old beat up brown Singapore model any day...). I think you will see the price point plummet if HP does a formal announcement.

Re: 32Sii high prices Message #7 Posted by R Lion on 14 Dec 2002, 9:13 a.m., in response to message #6 by Randy Sloyer I feel lucky in some way: last weekend I found "the last" 32sII (silver bezel:-( for 78 euros in a shop. Although I use daily a 48Gx and a 15C I couldn't resist... I hope these rumours about new good RPN models come truth Raul

Re: HP future RPN? Message #8 Posted by Eddie Mabillard (Switzerland) on 15 Dec 2002, 3:50 p.m., in response to message #1 by Tony David Potter I'd like to see new RPN calculators, for the basic model, it should be designed like the ten's serie, and the capabilities of the 42, if something like this comes out I would never again be trapped, and I buy ten at the begining, and everybody reading the museum site should be RPN missionaries and make a lot of new disciples in order to put pressure on Carli that we will never be caught again.

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