[sarge1976]

Originally Posted by HDTV1080P

The Pioneer 2008 Kuro's will soon be all gone from retail stores and mail order companies

Best Buy has removed the 60 inch Pioneer PDP-6020FD and 50 inch PRO-111FD from their online website. Also my local Best Buy sold out of the PDP-6020FD and PRO-111FD including the floor models. One of the Best Buy employees checked inventories for me and the PRO-111FD was out of stock in most states with only a few states having floor models still available. When the PRO-111FD was marked down a few weeks ago to $2,499.98 sale price they sold very fast. Also Best Buy has now marked up the PRO-141FD to $6,999.98 and the PRO-151FD to $6,499.98 which is 2 pennies away from the suggested list price. Some Best Buy stores in some states have less then 20 PRO-151FD's in stock. Best Buy has a few new and open box PDP-5020FD's available by mail order only with no retail sells for only $2,374.99.

There are mail order places where one can sometimes locate a $7,000 PRO-141FD for under $3,500 and a $5,500 PRO-101FD for under $2,500. Some mail order companies ship from authorized Pioneer dealers or distributors while other companies are not authorized dealers.

I spoke with a Pioneer District sales Manager I know and he informed me that Pioneer is all out of PRO-101FD's in the Pioneer warehouse. He did say that Pioneer did have a few PRO-141FD's in their warehouse but not that many left (I did not ask him about other models). Most likely most retail stores and mail order companies will be completely out of stock on all Pioneer plasma models in August or September. That is just an estimate I am making. As it stands now the only new in the box Pioneer model I can locate in my state at Best Buy is the PRO-151FD. Sure Best Buy has the PRO-141FD left but when inventories are checked they usually say that only the floor model is in stock and that they do not think they will be getting anymore in from the Pioneer warehouse.

I feel very lucky to be an owner of a 600M before there are no more left