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Paul, your nuts!!! Just kidding. But I never heard anyone complain about something being on sale / reduced in price. LOL Seriously now, I don't think their weekly specials and their different sales throughout the year are really like crying wolf because each sale has different items than the earlier sale, and afterwards the price goes back to MSRP. If they had everything always on sale and always at the same sale price, that would be crying wolf and would make the MSRP ludicrous. I have built up a collection of over 325+ tapes, with roughly 225 of them being Pentrex. It took several years, but most of them were aquired either through these specials (over the years) or from steep discounters like Cajon Rails or MacMillan Publications. So I am thankful that Pentrex has done so many sales - largely because often times even the steep discounters can't touch the Pentrex sale prices. The trick is to bide your time and be patient. If you want a tape, wait until it goes on sale. It could happen next week or it could take over a year, but it will be offered at a reduced / sale price sooner or later (and sometimes discounted 50 or 66 %, though that's more uncommon.) By using this approach I believe that on average (across my entire collection) I paid maybe only 70-75% of list. I'm pretty well done with my tape buying now, and only pick up an occasional new offering. By the way, in addition to the closeouts (which they always have on their website) they have a 20th anniversary special (they do the anniversary sale every summer) with 80 tapes on sale up to 50% off. This annual summer sale plus their annual (every January - February) Questionaire/Survey special - where you answer their questionaire of 6 - 8 questions about tapes - usually offer the best prices you'll ever see for Pentrex tapes. I waited for those two sales each year to do the bulk of my purchases. They usually have 80-100 tapes involved in those sales, though sometimes fewer. Here's the summer / anniversary sale: http://www.pentrex.com/20av.html Enjoy the hobby. Greg
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