Karma is now starting to ship!

Posted by: pgrzelak

Karma is now starting to ship! - 22/09/2003 10:51

Greetings!

Well, everything is set, and the first batch of Karma are on their way into the stores as of today. I don't know how fast they will get to "a store near you", but at least they are shipping!
Posted by: tfabris

Re: Karma is now starting to ship! - 22/09/2003 11:14

And there was much rejoicing.
Posted by: Mataglap

Re: Karma is now starting to ship! - 22/09/2003 11:35

Cool! Now we can start waiting for the 40 gig.

--Nathan
Posted by: eliceo

Re: Karma is now starting to ship! - 22/09/2003 12:23

exactly. also hope that we wont break down and buy a 20 in the mean time.
Posted by: matthew_k

Re: Karma is now starting to ship! - 22/09/2003 12:28

[gets credit card out freezer. Heads towards blow dryer]

This is great news. Is there any hope of a store having live display units? I'm rather fed up with the best buy/circuit city plastic models of expensive electronics. Of course, I've held one and played with it, so I'm not sure what I'm complaining about.

Matthew
Posted by: booey

Re: Karma is now starting to ship! - 22/09/2003 13:20

Called Best Buy here, they still say they dont have. I think the kids there are clueless to what they even have in stock if you ask me..
On a side note, i saw this really good deal on Compusa.com.. If i wasnt a loyal RIO/Empeg owner i would really consider this older model Ipod, its a hell of a deal!
http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=295651&pfp=BROWSE

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Posted by: tfabris

Re: Karma is now starting to ship! - 22/09/2003 13:27

Called Best Buy here, they still say they dont have.
Geez, it just went gold today, how fast do you expect them to be?
Posted by: booey

Re: Karma is now starting to ship! - 22/09/2003 13:44

I'm droolin over here Tony! some of us unfortunate ones havent had our hands on a Karma Beta Unit for the last few months ya know!
Plus.. this was from an earlier post...
"Just called my local best buy here in houston and they said that they have it in stock, but they can't release it until Tuesday...."


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Posted by: tfabris

Re: Karma is now starting to ship! - 22/09/2003 13:51

Plus.. this was from an earlier post...
Yeah, and that best-buy guy was wrong, unless he had Beta units in his back room.
Posted by: JaBZ

Re: Karma is now starting to ship! - 22/09/2003 15:18

What about online stores? waaaaaaaaaaaaa
Posted by: DeadFire

Re: Karma is now starting to ship! - 22/09/2003 17:41

... need... portable... ogg...

so... tempted...
Posted by: rob

Re: Karma is now starting to ship! - 23/09/2003 08:51

They air shipped yesterday. Allow a couple of days for them to arrive direct at the distribution center, and then anything from 2 days to a week to show up on individual store shelves. Stock will be erratic for a few days and should then level out.

Rob
Posted by: furtive

Re: Karma is now starting to ship! - 23/09/2003 09:57

How about us poor folks in the UK?
Posted by: simspos

Re: Karma is now starting to ship! - 23/09/2003 11:32

[/posh upper class vioce] ....Here, Here.... as rulers of the empire........
Posted by: Mataglap

Re: Karma is now starting to ship! - 23/09/2003 13:50

Is the Karma 40 the only other player to not yet ship, or are you guys still working on the Cali's, Chiba's, &c.?

--Nathan
Posted by: msaeger

Re: Karma is now starting to ship! - 23/09/2003 20:48

I saw the others at circuit city today.
Posted by: rob

Re: Karma is now starting to ship! - 25/09/2003 10:43

The only other player that hasn't shipped yet is Eigen, the "executive" version of Nitrus.

Rob
Posted by: Jerz

Re: Karma is now starting to ship! - 25/09/2003 15:56

OK, I've looked at all the players on the rio website and can't find Eigen. How does it differ from Nitrus?
Posted by: wfaulk

Re: Karma is now starting to ship! - 25/09/2003 16:01

Here you go.
Posted by: Jerz

Re: Karma is now starting to ship! - 25/09/2003 16:19

Oh, I remember reading that now... when rob said the "executive" version I thought it may have been combined with a pda or something.

Thanks.
Posted by: JaBZ

Re: Karma is now starting to ship! - 26/09/2003 01:10

Is this shipment also for online stores in US?

Jai