ETA on HD Extenders 2nd shipment??

[Jabroni]

Ok now i see you guys ran out your HD Extender stock (hurray!).... but now, any word for the unlucky people like me that didnt ordered the extender yet?? Any ETA of when the store is gonna have more units to sell??

I know we've been nauty.. but hey we still deserve HD Media Extenders...
(/me still has faith that he can see his extender under the tree this christmas)

[Nadim]

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[MikeW]

I was told late January.

[surge]

I've also been told late January and they aren't sure if they will have a bundle at that time. I guess I can't blame them.. They sold the first batch in a week so no incentive is needed for getting new customers. They have a hot item on their hands. Kudos to Sage for giving us MCE users a reason to jump ship.

Since I'll have some free time on my hands waiting for it, I'll see what Linksys has to offer with their Extender for Vista.

[nebulink]

You have gotta be kidding me!! no new extenders til late January? I only ordered one since I wanted to see how the sagetv experience was before completely leaving MCE. I will need at least 4 more before I can make the switch and I was hopeing to sell my 4 xbox 360's before christmas. that's a real bummer. I think getting such a small amount of stock of a hot item was a big mistake.

[paulbeers]

Originally Posted by nebulink

You have gotta be kidding me!! no new extenders til late January? I only ordered one since I wanted to see how the sagetv experience was before completely leaving MCE. I will need at least 4 more before I can make the switch and I was hopeing to sell my 4 xbox 360's before christmas. that's a real bummer. I think getting such a small amount of stock of a hot item was a big mistake.

I'm a little disappointed to, since I was just about to order one! However, I would be curious to know how many there were for the first round. In just the one pole about "how many HD extenders did you buy"....there were 170 sold to the responders of that Pole and that probably isn't anywhere near all the ones sold.

I think we all expected Sage to run out of stock fairly quickly.

[bastafidli]

There was a post around when somebody got 3 in the original box and based on the info on the box they calculated that the shipment had almost 500 of them.

[tmiranda]

I can't blame Sage at all, it was probably a good business decision. I don't think a small company can afford to order thousands and thousands of the extenders and risk that they do not sell.

I do not think 500 is the right number either, that seems too small. They probably gave a bunch away to beta testers, media people, etc.

[motobarsteward]

Something else to bare in mind is that there is a possibility (according to SageTV) that this second batch might be RoSH complient, Which means they'd be available for shipping outside of the US and Canada.

[FMAX]

Wow , I knew theyd sell out. Ordered mine WED got it on Friday.
Very happy with it 12hrs running.
I think that it is right to think they probably only ordered 1k or 2k first batch not knowing if the people in the forums would buy like they said they would.
I don't think the wireless MVP sold so well, so they were cautious.
I would think they would get more in january, but to think before the holiday chaos would be a miracle.
Late january was probably a save estimate, maybe before.
I'm sure they don't have the personnel, but a Pre-order process might help.

I ordered mine before telling the wife. She came home early on Firday and saw the white sagetv box.
First word was "How much?" then, "well merry christmas". I guess i got my gift early!
Respoce from earlier topic: better to ask for forgiveness........

[simonen]

That's a good one...my wife saw it and I told her it was something I had stored away. All these things look the same to her anyways.

[valnar]

I was just going to order one today. I wanted to see how the initial reviews went. Oh well..

Maybe the second batch will fix the IR issue. It seems minor enough.

-Robert

[MrD]

Look on the bright side, the 2nd gen could address some of the issues of the 1st gen.