Rio Car now available from Car Toys

To be fair, I don't believe they've had their product training, and they're waiting for the tuner modules before they really roll the product out. Hopefully when all this is sorted more car toys people will get to see them and understand what the whole thing is about :)

Hugo

hrm.. you should have let him know you have one.. gives them some idea that there are people out there that would buy them.

I got all of my accessories (amps/speakers/cabling/etc) from my local audio king, (ok store for most stuff needed.. had to goto a better place for my sub box) I've shown them the empeg, and one of the sales guys mentioned he's seen a couple guys with them a few months after i got mine.

12gig red mk2 -- 080000125

She was correct for the most part...They do have them in stock (in the warehouse.) There are 10G, 20G, 30G & 60G models available, the RD100-10, RD100-20, RD100-30 and RD100-60, as you'd figured. Car Toys should be able to look them up and order them if you give them that SKU #.

Regarding, the demo players for each store, I know they have them as I as I was in their warehouse a week ago putting content on them. ****OK, disclaimer time: The track selections and structure aren't exactly perfect, but are better than distributing them blank and leaving content up to each store... It was all we could legally get our hands on in a very short turn. End disclaimer time****

We've been encouraging them to get the units distributed to the stores, but they are Car Toys property now and there is only so much direction we can offer. They'll have literature once those units are distributed (it is in the display unit boxes.) When we get the training guides finished--they are just about ready to distribute--they should take the staff through a working knowledge of the characteristics of the players.

Go easy on their staff though, as you know: When you live with one day to day, it changes your listening style and your life. The sales staff won't necessarily "get it" right off since they won't have that luxury. I'd sure appreciate it though if you could help them understand how amazing these players are. Presently, they should also be able to order lens kits. Next week they will have additional harness/can's and power supplies. And ultimately remotes (could be up to two months out on these as we had to source a new manufacturer)

Also, we're working to leverage their in store terminal with a more complete demo of the player and the interaction with the software to give customers and staff a better depth of understanding in how the product works.

Hope this helps you understand where things are.

Best regards,
Tim

Greetings!

Please consider putting the "stun/kill" option on the production remotes!!!

Paul G.
SN# 090000587 (40GB Green)

Please consider putting the "stun/kill" option on the production remotes!!!

Lord Help Us! Can you imagine the number of returned remotes?

my stun/kill button doesn't work! I pointed it at my boss and he didn't do anything!

I was trying to kill the road rage driver who just cut in front of me but nothing happened. Do i need new batteries?



that would be an interesting FAQ section! Ha

Murray 06000047
I don't think, therefore I am not.

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"Regarding, the demo players for each store, I know they have them as I as I was in their warehouse a week ago putting content on them. ****OK, disclaimer time: The track selections and structure aren't exactly perfect, but are better than distributing them blank and leaving content up to each store... It was all we could legally get our hands on in a very short turn. End disclaimer time**** "


couldn't you put anything you want on them and just give the store you give the player to the original CD

I tried the South Colorado Springs store today, and basicially got stonewalled. The person refused to even check their systems. I eventually gave up, figuring that the south store just dosen't have the decent staff the north one does. (I've had other bad encounters down there before on other things as well). I'll have to go back to the north store sometime and tell the manager there the SKU's, since he seemed really interested when I dropped by right after Rob made the announcement.

this would be a great opportunity for a little evangelism. Any empeg owners near a Car Toys could have a "demo days" type thing organized by SonicBlue like Apple used to have, where the users would volunteer to demonstrate the product evangelising it the whole way. This would give their sales staff more hands on with the unit in it's environment instead of on a shelf.


|| loren.cox ||

I tried the South Colorado Springs store today, and basicially got stonewalled. The person refused to even check their systems.

You asked for information about a grand's worth of car stereo, and they weren't interested? How do these people make any money?

Peter

I tried the South Colorado Springs store today, and basicially got stonewalled. The person refused to even check their systems.

The North Aurora store is awesome here. All of the people are waiting to get theirs in. They installed mine, and were totally stoked about it when I told them they were getting it (I knew before they did). I went in two days ago looking for some stuff, and asked about the Rio Car, and they said the Park Meadows store was going to have a huge show where people like Rockford, JBL, Infinity, etc are going to show off their latest stuff. They also said that Rio should have a demo there as well. I don't know if the were just making stuff up or what. But they sounded excited about the product, and couldn't wait to get it in.

On a Side Note. Tim or Rob. I'm pretty sure a majority of us empeg / Rio Car owners would gladly demo the unit for the employees of Car Toys and show them the full aspects of the system, what it can do, etc.

Later!

Damien Heiser

RioCar / empeg 12GB Blue Mark 2a SN: 120001043

If you are talking about the CarToys on Aurora in Seattle, I live about 5 minutes away from it. I'd show up to demo my empeg if there was a meet sometime.
-Jeremy

Mk2/40GB/Blue

We don't have Car Toys in minnesota, the only decent chain is Audio King.. but I would love to demo my empeg for people there.

12gig red mk2 -- 080000125

If you are talking about the CarToys on Aurora in Seattle, I live about 5 minutes away from it. I'd show up to demo my empeg if there was a meet sometime.


Unfortuantely no, I'm talking about the one here in North Aurora in Colorado. hehe Sorry!

Damien Heiser

RioCar / empeg 12GB Blue Mark 2a SN: 120001043

Regarding, the demo players for each store, I know they have them as I as I was in their warehouse a week ago putting content on them.

The north Colorado Springs store now has their demo unit, but it came blank according to a few people. Not sure what happened, but they are going to look into getting it on display soon, once their internet connection comes back up and they get some music onto it.

The people up there were definitly interested though. I showed mine to a few of the employees, and one said something about hitting a co-worker for wanting to do a "trash can toss contest" with it. The employees agreed that it dosen't look flashy so they ignore it at first, but once they see it going they love it.

I'll probably head back up Tuesday with my laptop in the car for any help they might need getting the unit up completly.

Oh, I have a feeling some of the early sales are simply going to be the Car Toys staff. One of the people at the store really wanted it, but he indicated he would have wife problems if he bought one

like audio king is decent
after this car stereo purchase I have given up on all the retail stores
they are all clueless and just make up stuff to appear to be knowledgeable
if you demo the empeg for them they would probably just ask why you didn't just buy a changer

I have had one aberdeen store that almost denied the thing excisted when i showed it to them and then brought out the response of but the japs are bringing out MP3 players tht are far better than that and then showed me the awia head unit that plays mp3 cds.

The other smaller aberdeen store spent about an hour playing with it and genrally go wow and no that isn't possible is it?/