Re: About to buy this Rancilio combo...
A quick Melbourne update on the Silvia:
Silvia and Rocky stock are pretty much unavailable in Melbourne at present. I managed to scrounge an 09 and a couple of 09 Rocky doserless and paid almost full retail for the privilege of having them on the display bench
Supply has dried up completely and there will be no more until well into March by the look of things. I am unsure of the situation in other states. CSers who have Silvias and sell them to help fund an upgrade can expect top buck in the next month or so.
There are some internet vendors who normally sell the Silvia at near enough to wholesale cost and they are generally just interested in shifting boxes. More often than not, they offer no service facilities and they just hope their machines dont break. If/when they do break, we often get requests for service on their Silvias and we refer the owner back to their supplier for service on their machine.
I think its really important to consider both price and aftersales support. Its rare that you can have both- especially on these very low margin machines...
End of sermon! :
Chris
A quick Melbourne update on the Silvia:
Silvia and Rocky stock are pretty much unavailable in Melbourne at present. I managed to scrounge an 09 and a couple of 09 Rocky doserless and paid almost full retail for the privilege of having them on the display bench

Supply has dried up completely and there will be no more until well into March by the look of things. I am unsure of the situation in other states. CSers who have Silvias and sell them to help fund an upgrade can expect top buck in the next month or so.
There are some internet vendors who normally sell the Silvia at near enough to wholesale cost and they are generally just interested in shifting boxes. More often than not, they offer no service facilities and they just hope their machines dont break. If/when they do break, we often get requests for service on their Silvias and we refer the owner back to their supplier for service on their machine.

I think its really important to consider both price and aftersales support. Its rare that you can have both- especially on these very low margin machines...
End of sermon! :

Chris



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