On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:41:53 +0000, Larry Dighera wrote:

If that time period is not too long, why wouldn't it behove
manufacturers to maintain inflated equipment prices, secure in the
knowledge that buyers have no choice but to purchase and install before
the deadline?

That requires either monopoly or collusion. Otherwise, the vendors will
each undercut each other until the prices can't move any further.

Of course, that's in the ideal world. We do live there, right?

- Andrew