OK, Outlaw lowered their price. Keep in mind that the 950 is rolling off the same line as the AT and Sherbourn clones and several other variants like the Fosgate. The core architecture of the 950 is in a lot of products, and manufacturing savings are hardly improbable in that case. They could have left the price at $899, but have decided to instead offer their customers an even better value. Shame on them?

Now, they announced the price drop over the weekend. It was at a trade show, a logical place to do so. As I've already indicated, I don't understand how we can condemn a company for lowering the price on a product. I also don't know how else they could go about announcing a price change. If they say that they'll lower the price next month, then they are stuck with no sales for 30 days while everybody waits for the price drop and they have people waiting impatiently and wondering why they can't go ahead and drop the price now -- and apparently people who bought one at some point in the past complaining. So they announce it and make it effective immediately, and avoid two of those three headaches. For those people still in the 30-day return period (xyzfla, raider), I do think it's worthwhile to investigate a refund.



Since we haven't actually asked them yet, it seems premature to complain about terrible business practices because of the chance that they will say "no" to xyzfla, raider, and others in the 30-day window. All we have right now is a price reduction. The horror. Find me something in the newsletter that says "Oh, and if you just bought a 950, tough luck -- we're not interested in discussing a rebate." It's not there. I just looked. Take a deep breath, relax, and let's wait a few days to see what happens.

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