[Stavanger]

Ordered a pair of Denon AH-D7000 from Bottom Line Telecommunications August 18.
Today I got the following reply:

Quote,
In regard to the following order you placed on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 for
the following:

Item Unit Extended
Qty ID # Description Price Price
--- -------- -------------------------- ------------ ------------
001 BU74571 DISCONTINUED: DENON 566.78 566.78
REFERENCE ON-EAR MAHOGANY
HDPH NIC
MFG #: AH-D7000
ETA: DISCONTINUED | SHIP: EMS
---------------------------------------------------------------------

Purchase Sub Total: $566.78
Estimated Shipping: 41.77
Handling: 8.00
Sales Tax: 0.00
Order Total: $616.55

Unfortunately, we have been notified today that above item has been
discontinued by the manufacturer, and will not be shipping to fill your
order. Additionally, we could not locate any equivalent substitutes and
have been forced to cancel your order. Please accept our apologies for any
inconveniences this may have caused you. Thank you, and please consider us
for your next computer related purchase.

Best Regards,
Samuel S.

Unquote,

Is there any truth to this or does this look like a classic flake to you?

 

[FallenAngel]

Awesome price. Can't believe Denon would discontinue their newest headphone though.

 

[32y0]

The headphones are still on denon's website and at denon.co.uk they aren't listed under discontinued products DENON UK | Home Audio Components.
So I don't think the headphone is discontinued.

 

[koven]

definitely not discontinued

 

[Nigel79]

Same thing happened to me on a different site. I think they are realizing that they can't sell them for that price. I paid $541 and recieved the same email and then saw them on the same site the next day for $594. I just ordered a pair for $550 from J&R and recieved them in 2 days. They are incredable. I wouldn't trade them for anything. And I would have paid double if I had to.

 

[Stavanger]

Suspected so. Appreciate your feedback. Would have contacted J&R but as far as I know they will not ship internationally. Do anyone know of any other companies that actually would ship their listed d7000 internationally at equivalent prices?

 

[csommers]

Yea that sounds a little shady to me, especially the part about "comparable" products. Try another site

 

[Ecael]

Happened to me from BLT and Provantage for AH-D2000, though unlike the 7000 that one might actually see phasing out...sigh

 

[Ecael]

dp, delete if possible.

 

[cswann1]

I think "discontinued" just means that the retailer no longer carries them, not that Denon stopped making them.

 

[djevoultion]

Quote:

Originally Posted by cswann1 /img/forum/go_quote.gif I think "discontinued" just means that the retailer no longer carries them, not that Denon stopped making them.

...above item has been discontinued by the manufacturer

 

[cswann1]

Quote:

Originally Posted by djevoultion /img/forum/go_quote.gif ...above item has been discontinued by the manufacturer

Ah. I didn't read that far down. Well in that case it sounds like the retailer is BSing because they don't have any in stock and don't want to order any more, most likely because they can't move them except at prices lower than everyone else has, which I'm sure Denon frowns on and makes the retailer very little profit.

Since they are still on Denons web-site, this sounds like the most likely scenario.

 

[SleazyC]

Hold on, are people still getting the D7000 deal from J&R? I thought they had stopped that deal, was pretty interested in making a purchase but then I heard that the deal was dead.

 

[FallenAngel]

I just got off the phone with them, the rep quoted me $899.99 but after a few minutes we brought it down to $749.99.

Still not as good as used on the forums, but not bad.

 

[GMF2010]

Ask to speak to someone else. Eventually you'll get a better price. I even mentioned Head-Fi. I believe, in the end, I got them for $585, shipped.