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Icom 5100 Price

HRO offered to take pre-orders on the 5100 in March '14 and you had to pay $35 to pre-order at a price of $749. I did pre-order and they called me yesterday to say they should be in soon. I said "Great"...then I was told 'the coupon' will be expiring at the end of the month (that's today) so I needed to pre-pay in full for the radio that hasn't even shipped yet or the price would go 'back up' to $849.

I told them I thought that was bogus and they said they'd call me right back which they did not do yet. I put a call in to Icom and spoke to Daniel in Customer Support who checked and said there is no Icom coupon (expiring today or otherwise) on that rig. He also checked the MSRP and said it is $899.

A quick check with Gigaparts yielded a price of $789 and some kind of promo for 1/2 off the $99 bluetooth board. Gigaparts says they are raising their price too to $849 soon.

Not happy with the tactics, think I will cancel my order. {Cry_river}

<blockquote data-quote="N3KDJ" data-source="post: 476400" data-attributes="member: 13275">Icom 5100 PriceHRO offered to take pre-orders on the 5100 in March &#039;14 and you had to pay $35 to pre-order at a price of $749. I did pre-order and they called me yesterday to say they should be in soon. I said &quot;Great&quot;...then I was told &#039;the coupon&#039; will be expiring at the end of the month (that&#039;s today) so I needed to pre-pay in full for the radio that hasn&#039;t even shipped yet or the price would go &#039;back up&#039; to $849.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad&nbsp; &nbsp; :mad:"&nbsp; data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" />I told them I thought that was bogus and they said they&#039;d call me right back which they did not do yet. I put a call in to Icom and spoke to Daniel in Customer Support who checked and said there is no Icom coupon (expiring today or otherwise) on that rig. He also checked the MSRP and said it is $899.&nbsp;A quick check with Gigaparts yielded a price of $789 and some kind of promo for 1/2 off the $99 bluetooth board. Gigaparts says they are raising their price too to $849 soon.Not happy with the tactics, think I will cancel my order. {Cry_river}</blockquote>

[QUOTE="N3KDJ, post: 476400, member: 13275"] [b]Icom 5100 Price[/b] HRO offered to take pre-orders on the 5100 in March '14 and you had to pay $35 to pre-order at a price of $749. I did pre-order and they called me yesterday to say they should be in soon. I said "Great"...then I was told 'the coupon' will be expiring at the end of the month (that's today) so I needed to pre-pay in full for the radio that hasn't even shipped yet or the price would go 'back up' to $849.:mad: I told them I thought that was bogus and they said they'd call me right back which they did not do yet. I put a call in to Icom and spoke to Daniel in Customer Support who checked and said there is no Icom coupon (expiring today or otherwise) on that rig. He also checked the MSRP and said it is $899. A quick check with Gigaparts yielded a price of $789 and some kind of promo for 1/2 off the $99 bluetooth board. Gigaparts says they are raising their price too to $849 soon. Not happy with the tactics, think I will cancel my order. {Cry_river} [/QUOTE]

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