[gps-talkusers] Re: no choice but to raise prices

Well, this announcement slipped out a bit early but no harm. We will honor the existing prices until the end of 05.
Mike
At 07:54 AM 12/22/2005, you wrote: 
Hello Listers,

I hope you all had a good new year celebration.

Sendero has been able to develop and continuously improve the BrailleNote GPS over the past 4 years largely due to a Department of Education NIDRR grant. In other words, users have not had to pay all the freight, so to speak, for the very rich features and content of the GPS product so far.

The amount of federal funding has slowly declined over the course of this five year grant and 2006 is our last year of funding. In order to provide the features and updates you have come to expect, Sendero finds it necessary to raise the list price of the new GPS package to $1599 as well as some of the upgrade prices to help pay for development. The good news is that this price will include 2 GPS upgrades. For those who have already purchased a GPS SMA, they too will receive the two next updates. If you wish to get these upgrades, a 2 upgrade SMA is $199. This will be approximately $50 to $100 less than the cost of those upgrades individually.

Remember too that Sendero sells the BrailleNote family of products. We hope you will purchase your GPS and BrailleNote directly from us and become part of the Sendero family. We make every effort to extend

We are just beginning beta testing of Sendero's GPS version 3.5 and hope to have it out by March. We will divulge more about the content of this update once we are closer to wrapping it up. We are certainly looking at your suggestions and although we cannot include everything in this update, there will be some excellent improvements.

I want to thank you for being on this pioneering GPS voyage with us. I like to think of us as a small but vocal and innovative group. Let's hope our numbers grow so the majority of blind folks can enjoy the independence we experience every day with our GPS, and it is indeed that, our GPS. Unlike any other, Sendero's GPS is a product of your emails and phone calls.

All the best for the New Year.



Michael G. May

CEO Sendero Group

Developers and distributors of BrailleNote GPS
Distributing BrailleNote, VoiceNote, Miniguide, The Tissot Silen-T tactile watch, and the ID Mate bar code reader

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