e-trac prices slashed by one outlet.

[JBM]

Is this the start of something bigger with yet another Codan/Minelab model on reduced price for a period of time.

I certainly hope so for those who find it hard to afford one of their machines.  Jerry.

[Chef Geoff]

I think you could transplant "find it hard to afford" with "have more common sense"  but yes it could be interesting as with JA reducing their price to below £1K and Crawfords offering a price match it could ripple out to effect the Deus price too and who knows bring prices to a more realistic level for what you get

[probono]

I think you could transplant "find it hard to afford" with "have more common sense"  but yes it could be interesting as with JA reducing their price to below £1K and Crawfords offering a price match it could ripple out to effect the Deus price too and who knows bring prices to a more realistic level for what you get

I'm just waiting for the CTX price to drop below £1k and for the replacement coils on the Deus to become cheaper - I resent having to pay for effectively a new detector everytime you want a new coil for them.....

[Landyman]

I think that detector prices might be lower if all those people with more money than sense stopped rushing to buy the latest over priced detector the minute it is in the shops.
If no one bought one at first then the price would have to be lowered.

[Chef Geoff]

Probono XP say that the "Brains" of the Deus is in the coil so yes you are effectively buying a new machine every time you buy a coil but if that's true then why are the brains cheaper than the remote
Machines are never going to be ultra cheap as it's a very small market which also means lack of competition but we are being ripped right off by possibly illegal trading practices under EEC law, a few years ago many machines went up because of the drop in the pound against the dollar well that righted itself but I can't remember the prices going back down
Mobile phones are many thousand times more sophisticated technologically than a metal detector though you can pick those up for £50 but of course the market is thousands of times bigger, it's all very wrong but it's the way it is

[bristolminelab]

bring on a price war

[probono]

Mobile phones are many thousand times more sophisticated technologically than a metal detector though you can pick those up for £50 but of course the market is thousands of times bigger, it's all very wrong but it's the way it is

Mobile phones - by themselves are still quite expensive (I know how much the machines that make the components for phones at the company I work for cost) - but of course you still pay for them over a year or two.....

Woodbob has managed to knock up a few reasonable detectors (from plans) for very little money, but I suppose they would say that they have to recoup their development costs - and that's amongst a smaller number of total sales than phones. I still don't like the idea of having to pay so much money for a Deus coil though!

[dances with badgers]

should knock the prices up then there would be less newbs after me gold