Miners Den Adelaide closed for good?

[PeterInSa]

Re (RM Electronics at Naracoorte)
Years ago purchased my 7000 from them but its a fair drive from Adelaide to pick up a detector, reason, on introduction, the 7000 was in short supply and RM had a few. But did not have the same detecting experience in the shop as Nenad now provides.

My understanding from selling our E1500 and buying a 2nd hand 6000 is that detector sales between Oct and Feb are very slow ( hence Minlabs xx% off in October) and to run a shop/pay staff and not have the same Australia wide presence as Nenad ( Visiting detector clubs /Comments/threads on Forums in Oz and US and his Youtube Vids) it could be a wise decision to close.

 

[grubstake]

My understanding from selling our E1500 and buying a 2nd hand 6000 is that detector sales between Oct and Feb are very slow ( hence Minlabs xx% off in October)

I've noticed the same in our Classifieds section here at PA, then last year in March/April, the market took off and detectors were finding new homes every couple of days!

 

[XLOOX]

I suspect detector sales are always slow between Oct and Mar as a lot of folk finish up for the season in Oct as it is getting too hot in WA and NQ and they dont start again until April so they will be just waiting to see if there are any new releases between then. If not then no rush to buy/sell anything.

Might be even slower sales this year with the Nokta PI release anticipated (again).

Once we get to April then its all on again for the coming season, buying new kit selling old ....

 

[Moneybox]

I'm hoping we see some serious competition for Minelab. It's nice to have an Australian company doing well but they are supplying very poorly manufactured machines and then backing them up with reliable warranty. It should be the other way around, supply reliable machines with warranty there if needed. They desperately need a good shakeup.

Their control over dealers selling Minelab exclusively has been in place for a long time but in areas where there are very limited sales it makes a small dealership unviable. To have somebody like Phase Technical as an agent they'd surely be providing a much better customer service although I'm not sure that's something they practice.

 

[grubstake]

Might be even slower sales this year with the Nokta PI release anticipated (again).

This upcoming Nokta PI is beginning to sound like the long-forecast Fisher PI:
2014: https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/threads/new-fisher-pi-gold-detector.9427/
2017: https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/threads/first-texas-fisher-working-on-a-new-pi.22355/
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