Purchased a Sonic Core Project card listed as in stock at USD$799 (previous pricing) on EMB website.
After transaction went through, I received an email stating that it was not in stock and that I had to top up to USD$975 due to price increase. After I rejected the new offer, EMB took a couple of weeks to reverse the charges during which I suffered a loss due of USD70 due to currency exchange fluctuation and bank charges.
$799? that was an oooollllld listing.
prices have gone up. i'll bet that he hadn't tried to order a card in a while. is this the place in Encino, California? i believe i got my first card from them way back when. it was v1.2 and there was no Scope platform, it was a Pulsar card.
anyway, if you see a price that's really low on Scope products, make sure it's in stock. if it isn't in stock, but they can get it and they'll verify the price, well, it could be cool. anyway, my now useless advice is just me being sorry for your bad experience. i can't do any better, except maybe to tell a story.
when Creamware went away, it sort of faded before the end. a lot of people were waiting on the next Scope version, but Creamware was working on new synth boxes in India. people stopped ordering and a lot of online stores left the listing up, expecting action any day. Sonic/Core took over and sales picked up a bit, then tapered off as we all waited for XITE, and the public wasn't alerted to buy, buy, buy with shiny lights and lots of magazine articles. now that XITE is out, and v5 is released(though we haven't even seen v5.0 yet), people are buying Scope products again(which is great! S/C can continue to develope if people buy stuff). that's my guess as to what happened, if it's the guy i'm thinking of....
