A few Ultras sold high close to the Axe II announcement date.
At least a few folks have Axe II beta units.
Therefore: any unit that sold close to the Axe II announcement date must have been owned by a beta tester.
~Anyone can do this with any data fragments and then convince themselves of the veracity of their speculations. The Shaolin/Buddhists call this type of mental wave the "think/prove circuit". It's been getting folks in trouble for thousands of years. Just because you are clever enough to think/project into an idea doesn't make it so.
First, I'm not "assassinating" anyone's "character" Mitchell - that's ludicrous.
Second, when you say your sick of hearing people's opinions, which they should be entitled to whether you disagree or not, and threaten to take some kind of action for expressing them - need I say more about that? However, I probably should have said "people" and not "beta testers". I guess I made the assumption that the only people who knew in advance were beta testers, and that's not a valid assumption. But "character assassination"? The drama!
Scotts:
Third, it's not the 4 sales in the 72 hours prior to the countdown that's suspicious, it's the lack of sales prior to late April that's suspicious. I sold my Ultra on eBay (late) but have no regrets about it. I lost money but it was worth every penny to own it. I had the option to sell early on in the countdown and get what I paid for it. I chose to wait because I didn't know what was going to be announced. I looked at the completed listings on eBay a week and a half ago and they were almost if not non-existent when I looked while contemplating selling my unit. I failed to make that point.
I attempted to retrieve the old completed listings but they cut off at 2 weeks, so now I can't document how many sold before two weeks ago (not that I care really but I'd like to fill in the missing details).
Forth, your logic leaves out a few things, but that's my fault.
-A few Ultras sold high close to the Axe II announcement date.
-At least a few folks have Axe II beta units.
I would add:
-I assumed that ONLY beta testers had the ability to find out in advance that a new hardware unit was going to be released. (They never told any of their friends, wives, kids, etc. and nobody at another company involved in production could have found out). Bad assumption.
-Very few units were sold on ebay prior to late April, then just before the countdown a bunch went up for sale.
With those pieces of information the conclusion becomes logical:
Therefore: SOME OF THE UNITS that sold close to the Axe II announcement WERE ALMOST SURELY owned by *someone* who was tipped off, but not necessarily and probably not by a beta tester.
My intent was not to question anyone's integrity, and I should have simply said "someone" and left the beta testers out of it. My bad. Actually my point was that *someone* found out. Who I don't know other than eBay names which I produced.
I don't share the belief that there was some kind of "conspiracy" among those "in the know" to dump units, but I still believe based on what I saw on eBay that someone (whoever - I don't care who, and I apologize to anyone who beta tested that took it personally) was tipped off, and like I said, units were sold off on a *limited* scale.
It's not a big deal until moderators start telling me I can't express my opinion. Then I feel compelled to set the record straight.
Redact "beta testers" and insert "someone".
Enough time wasted on this if ask me. Products age, new ones come out, the old ones aren't worth as much in terms of $$$ anymore. That's life folks. I didn't complain, I said I saw "nothing unfair" as I recall.