If you read further down the thread, an outlet in Denmark I think it was, sold them for roughly half price - hacked me off a bit I must say.

Dave.

Crikey!

This was at one weekend, only!

They (DustinHome) have probably bought a lot of these at very good conditions.

Shortly after they were sold at regular prices.

An special offer to 'catch' new costumers.

They may profit from that, but certainly not from selling the item.

My dealer told me, that he couldn't even buy them for that price.

MM

What's called a 'loss leader'. Great for those that could take up the offer. Now if only they'd stock some BL90's!

Dave.

Thanks. Well I don't own any BO at this time but I've been regularly exposed to a lot of BO stuff up through the years. As a student I worked at a store that had an own BO concept store, I just didn't work in the BO department. I did have good knowledge of BO and had to step in at times, and of course played around with BO stuff all the time. I don't think I bought any BO, even with dealer discount, as I used all my money on booze and regular hifi equipment;) 

But as you get a little older, you sometimes have to make "sacrifices", and you want something that "just works", looks good, but also sound good (and looks good as in picture quality). That's where BO traditionally had their market. Also a lot of people are really satisfied with their old BO stuff and service of their BO dealer that they usually come again, BO has a lot of "value" to them even though the prices are premium.

I would probably buy the beolab 18 just for looks alone, but at this time I don't have space for it. But "value" is a personal preference, so I guess that's why BO needed the Play range to give more people access to their products. Some of the Play range are good, some less so (still good, but below par so to speak). The Play S3 is imho of the latter kind.  

..Come to think of it, I actually own a BO TV furniture. I bought it without the TV :) and use it as my AV stand. Really satisfied with that one.

The store that sold the S3 for half price did have it as a weekend sale only, and the price went back up to normal. But I have a student account (that they don't do anymore) that automatically give me a little better price on most things, and when I logged on I saw that the student price was even lower than the weekend sale. A week later they started selling bundles of 2 S3 for half price as well. I think they still do, but the prices might have gone up a little. 

As of today they charge 2999 danish kroner - that is even more than the B&O dealer sell it for.

Funny world, eh!

MM

Dustinhome in Sweden still have 50% when you buy 2, looks like they have a big stock on them to 🙂

 

....and at Dustinhome.dk it is 3999 Dkr -  if you take two.

And they are some not-used for sale on the Blå Avis (Ebay kind-of) in DK for 2200 Dkr.

I would wish for a version of this little pearl with PL and R/L switch ;-))

For that I'd be willing to pay the full price at my B&O dealer!

MM

For anyone in the states, Radio Shack is currently taking $200 off (50% discount!) with the purchase of $50 or more from their store. Time to buy the new Apple TV and save $200! 

Additionally, does anyone have two S3's hooked up to their computer? Wondering if that is possible and how that sounds.

I bought two a while ago and hooked them up to my Macbook Pro Retina. The wireless connection is so bad it's impossible to use them. As others points out the signal lags quite a bit in all cases.

I thought something was wrong with them, so I contact B&O customer support asking if they perhaps already released a software update. They responded by asking where I bought the speakers and when I then replied that they where bought at Dustin, B&O refused to help, since I didn't buy them from their own distribution channel!

I should have sent them back  right there, but the speakers are still standing on each side of my screen collecting dust. I  tried a few times since to see if I could get a better connection, but sadly no...

So for me a really bad experience, in particular with customer support. They have me on record asking a few questions over many years on top of the line Beolabs and BVs, so just telling me to to piss off really made me consider putting all my stuff up for sale immediately. Not a happy camper...

 

/Kim