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Originally Posted by knighthawk
MRT are the only issue here, they rip off a genuine product, undercut that product to sell it to racers.
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They don't look like AMBs and aren't advertised as AMBs, we all know we are buying MRTs so the racers aren't being ripped off at all. Claiming the MRTs are ripping off a genuine product is the same as claiming the Ultima RB5 is ripping off the B4, or every touring car is ripping off the TRF415 because they do the same job..
MRTs do cost AMB in lost sales, but then I don't consider the decoders good value for money either. £2500 for the decoder, with the only option if it breaks down outside of warranty is to buy a new one at full price. Transponders that used to cost £95 when MRT could sell you one that could do the same for half the price, even though they don't have the production scale that AMB has. The amount of price gouging due to their monopoly position is fairly obvious when you look at the 45% discount for trading in an MRT. If AMB had priced their transponders more reasonably in the first place there would not have been a gap in the market for MRT to fill.