Where to get an Epson wide 8550 printer: One of our knowledgeable participants here recommended this printer for many good reasons. Nobody has it for sale except at nearly double the...

revhen Loc: By the beautiful Hudson

One of our knowledgeable participants here recommended this printer for many good reasons. Nobody has it for sale except at nearly double the standard price. I guess the strangled supply chain has not let more into our country. Any ideas?

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

revhen wrote:

One of our knowledgeable participants here recommended this printer for many good reasons. Nobody has it for sale except at nearly double the standard price. I guess the strangled supply chain has not let more into our country. Any ideas?

Yeah... Wait for it.

Chances are really good there is a container or two full of them on a ship or at the port on the West coast.

A year and a half of pent-up demand, coupled with labor shortages, chip shortages, and a virus that won't go away, has created product shortages, which puts upward pressure on prices. Opportunists always try to take advantage of that. Beware unscrupulous sellers on eBay and Amazon.

revhen Loc: By the beautiful Hudson

burkphoto wrote:

Yeah... Wait for it.

Chances are really good there is a container or two full of them on a ship or at the port on the West coast.

A year and a half of pent-up demand, coupled with labor shortages, chip shortages, and a virus that won't go away, has created product shortages, which puts upward pressure on prices. Opportunists always try to take advantage of that. Beware unscrupulous sellers on eBay and Amazon.

As you are the original advisor for this printer, thank you for your further advice.

pendennis

burkphoto wrote:

Yeah... Wait for it.

Chances are really good there is a container or two full of them on a ship or at the port on the West coast...

Unless someone steals a container-load from a rail car in LA.

Sorry. Couldn't help myself.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

pendennis wrote:

Unless someone steals a container-load from a rail... (show quote)

It IS a real problem. Hopefully, LAPD are on it now.

revhen Loc: By the beautiful Hudson

pendennis wrote:

Unless someone steals a container-load from a rail... (show quote)

Well, in the early days of computerdom I would go to those "fairs" where one could buy parts for their computers. I remember buying a HUGE 20 megabyte hard drive for my Kaypro -- literally of the back of a truck. I never asked where the drive came from.

bdk Loc: Sanibel Fl.

revhen wrote:

Well, in the early days of computerdom I would go to those "fairs" where one could buy parts for their computers. I remember buying a HUGE 20 megabyte hard drive for my Kaypro -- literally of the back of a truck. I never asked where the drive came from.

and when we did buy them, we wondered how would we ever fill them ,a huge 20 Meg....

JBRIII

While I'm sure things will get better, it is also possible they just aren't making them now or in the future? I have had two instances recently where something I am interested in is not being made. Appears it is due to workers and or materials, i.e., if you can sell all of one model you can make, why make two or three models. In my case, dealer had no idea when things would change!

FotoHog Loc: on Cloud 9

revhen wrote:

One of our knowledgeable participants here recommended this printer for many good reasons. Nobody has it for sale except at nearly double the standard price. I guess the strangled supply chain has not let more into our country. Any ideas?

I just ordered the ET-8550 from BestBuy and managed to snag the last available one. BUT it is being shipped from another store 1000 miles away. The delivery date is February 3rd.
I hope that the anticipated bad weather isn't going to throw a curveball into the equation.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

FotoHog wrote:

I just ordered the ET-8550 from BestBuy and managed to snag the last available one. BUT it is being shipped from another store 1000 miles away. The delivery date is February 3rd.
I hope that the anticipated bad weather isn't going to throw a curveball into the equation.

We would love to read your impressions of its performance after you get it going!

Johnnyt Loc: keizer Oregon

A little bit of info for the huge 20mb hard drive! That hard drive was probably a 5 inch or so size. The first hard drive I encountered was 5Mb. It was a DEC hard drive where the platter was the size of an lp 33RPM record. Then we expanded to a10Mb drive. I’m not too sure if I should include this but it was hooked up to a dec 11-83 computer that was used for one of the first multiple line optical mail processors in the US Postal service in the 1990’s. I retired in 2007 and I’m sure that things have come a long way since then!

PhotosBySteve

I have an Epson R3000 you can have for the price of shipping plus $100

psievers

I finally got mine from B & H after waiting several months.

JBRIII

FotoHog wrote:

I just ordered the ET-8550 from BestBuy and managed to snag the last available one. BUT it is being shipped from another store 1000 miles away. The delivery date is February 3rd.
I hope that the anticipated bad weather isn't going to throw a curveball into the equation.

Congrats.
There are no BestBuys near me now, but when I lived near one it seemed they never had what I wanted in stock, no matter how big or small.

Old Coot

revhen wrote:

One of our knowledgeable participants here recommended this printer for many good reasons. Nobody has it for sale except at nearly double the standard price. I guess the strangled supply chain has not let more into our country. Any ideas?

Samy"s Camera in LA advertises them in stock