http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news-12109...s+bankrupt.html



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Wow ... unique n good design ... but too bad ... no more !

Sad stuff really..it's like seeing ferrari go bust.

padan muka!!! go put ur friggin price so high for what? normal people like us cant afford to buy then go bankrupt.... next time should put cheaper then can get volume and wont go bankrupt maaaaa

It's called aspiration ler.... if ferrari sell at kancil price...would it be a ferrari?

I can't afford to own a ferrari but aspire to own one.

It's sad that the IT industry these days no more niche di...everything all mainstream.

sad to hear this..

our booest will b more sad

but soldam too exp n market for it jus too niche..other company like LL can copy sikit the look minus the soldam quality craftmanship but low low price..

lol....if they stop manufacturing it, will they sell off their current stock that is locked up in their garage cheap?? cause if it is, i'll definitely grab 1...

What they should know is that you cant do a "Ferrari Price Policy" on stuffs like this. Its like a BMW or a Mercedes you know. Who wouldnt wanna own one? Everyone admires one, everyone needs one, but NOT everyone is able to pay for one.

owh man~ wai? wai Soldam? -feeling down-
eiyh, on 2nd tot, if they do SALES on the remaining casings, gez its time to contact my friends in Japan again... XD

Considering there won't be any more manufacture of their casings, you can bet any existing stock will become insta-classics and the price will increase even more due to even more exclusivity and it'll be even more desirable. (Did I just use "even more" too many times )

Yeah. I agree on the price hike thing. Its like "oooh, the last Proton Wira. Last time it costs 50K, now 5.5 million????"

nice comparison... but i doubt proton will fetch such a high price even if it goes bankrupt..

Act not all the time manufacturers simply put any price or xcessive margin. More likely the production cost itself vry high due to various costs; like the escalating metals' price nowadays


Acey : No1 gonna pay dat price for a Proton lah. Better get Bentley or Rolls-Royce

auww,, where i going to get ideas for my next mod? they have all the craziest idea always....

Yaikz... that's kinda bad news. Ended up bankcrupt ...
The design of the case looks .. unique ...

How true... in most situations, the margins earned by the distributor or the shop itself are higher than manufacturers themselves leh...and those guys have factory to maintain leh. *sigh*

look nice, not bad.

Similar 2 almost any biz, even selling vegetables, the middleman simply makes most while customers think its all due to the producer

Anyway since it already happened nothing can be done ready & no point discussing further; unless white knight comes 2 the rescue

I enquired about buying one from them 4 months ago. They emailed me back telling me they do not sell outside of Japan. I begged them to sell and ship me one....even offered to write an article on it. But they won't budge.......got business also don't want - no wonder they closed down. lol

Some manufacturers hav strict policies regarding their market presence etc; which for me is just nonsense

posts like yours restore my faith in my belief that you may have a high post count, but if you're born an ignorant dumbass, you always WILL be a ignorant dumbass.

Sometimes I wonder why it's so exclusive. Yeah, I know, it's like Ferraris but not to sell outside Japan is the main reason of their bankruptcy, IMO.

soldam aka windy realy produced state of the art case...bt their jp site stil active...they realy face bankrupcy? http://www3.soldam.co.jp/

no wonder the manufacture closing down
really teruk when we wanna get their product but they dont want to sell it to us

btw, is soldam onli selling at japan ka?

Well, we don't really know why they dont wanna sell outside of Japan. Perhaps it cud b due to sum weird laws allowing them to sell only in Japan. Just like how they have only Japanese Domestic Market(JDM) cars which r allowed to b sold only in Japan. If ppl wanna buy a JDM car they hafta do it themselves by going tru the hassles of importing it themselves. Mebe Soldam is restricted by similar laws too?