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Subject: Re: Commercial Hydra Chess once ?

Author: Jonas Bylund

Date: 01:57:23 08/16/04

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On August 16, 2004 at 04:56:20, Jonas Bylund wrote:

>>Don“t hold your breath, it will never be commercial.
>>However, if you are an Oil Sheik there is a chance to get it. :)
>
>What i find odd here is that there are a lot of the "normal" comp chess
>enthusiasts (including myself) who are willing to pay quite a bit for Hydra
>cards, i would go as high as $500-800 per card. With that in mind i don't
>understand why they don't make a preoder "survey" where it is understood that
>only if the # of people willing to cough up the amount they see fit for mass
>producing it, they will release it for people to buy, that way they would make
>money on it besides from what they get in sponsor money. Of course if the price
>of the cards is as high as mentioned before then i can see why they don't even
>consider it :) however i find that haed to believe, any estimates from people
>who have an idea?


BTW preoder=preorder :)



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