I'd been wanting a Xootr ever since I found out they existed (which was a while ago) but I wasn't about to pay as much money as they were charging. I did, however, sign up for the free t-shirt offer, which got me on their marketing mailing list.

As I suspected, things worked out pretty well. Seems I'm not the only person interested but unwilling to shell out that kind of dough. What's interesting to me is that they're selling "factory second" units for 40-something percent off. If you can give a 40% discount and still make a profit, might that not mean that your original prices were a bit, um, steep?

I ordered a refurbished front-brake Street model. Not like I'm not gonna scratch it up anyway, and 30 bucks is 30 bucks.

( 9:32 EST, Thursday, 18 January 2001.)