Pugsy wrote: ↑Sun Feb 13, 2022 2:57 pm
JLROhio wrote: ↑Sun Feb 13, 2022 2:22 pm
Oh, and per todays SuperBowl Special E-mail Sale - you CANNOT use code SLEEPERBOWL22, to save 20%, on that $1,249 ResMed AS 10 AutoSet
It's always been that way with any of the "sitewide sales" of any percent off....fine print...machines excluded.
That's nothing new.
It's rare that machines get discounted in any fashion unless they are trying to move discontinued machines.
Since ResMed is still actually manufacturing the AirSense 10 models along side the AirSense 11 (at least that's the way it was a short while ago) I won't expect to see the A10 models discounted until ResMed says the sellers can discount it since it will be discontinued.
ResMed is, or used to be, fairly contract specific on what their products can be advertised at and sold at in terms of pricing.
But as I now see some online sellers who are offering pre orders on the AirSense 11 AutoSet...the prices are all over the place. I don't know if they have relaxed their contracts or not that essentially meant ResMed was price fixing.
Used to be that 883 price for the AutoSet was what you saw everywhere....not so much now. Might change later. I dunno.
And yes....I have also noticed a marked increase in the email ads from cpap.com....last month or so maybe.
A LOT more of those emails. Used to get maybe 2 or 3 a week...maybe. Now it's often 2 or 3 a day. I don't open most of them anymore. Mostly they get deleted immediately.
I have sort of got real unhappy about the recent promo for the preorder of the A11 Autoset and overnight major price change. Left a bad taste in my mouth. As one person told me "I love cpap.com but not 400 bucks worth of love"...
I've never bought a CPAP from CPAP.com, so I was not aware that their coupons did not apply to the actual CPAP's.
Parts, yes...I've bought those, and have used the coupons to bring down their prices to reasonable levels.
I didn't realize either that ResMed forces their distributors prices (sorta like Apple Products).
As to the e-mails, I don't know why, but I hardly ever got e-mails from CPAP.com until, as you said, about a month ago.
I see they hired SalesForce.com to promote their products (from the e-mail links).
As to ResMed's price increases...it does not seem to have helped their stock price much. While ResMed's stock price is up since last June (beginning of the Philips recall), if this was Apple, based upon a product price increase, the stock would be up much, much higher. I don't think I've seen a company handed market share (to be taken at will) on a silver platter like this before and then to not have done something amazing with it.
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