Dumping
It's kind of funny really. RS potentially saturating the relatively small scanner market with $100 PRO-197's and BCD996XT's.
Can you imagine what Uniden and Whistler must be thinking at the moment?
They must be livid
With Uniden struggling to sell their new high end digital scanner after a severe consumer backlash over missing features and questionable design choices and Whistler trying to sell it's 'new' scanners, the last thing either company needs right now is R.S dumping digital scanners into the small market at ridiculous prices.
And, we all know that a large number of those sub $100 scanners are going to end up on ebay or resold elsewhere where the sellers stand to gain a nice 200% profit on their investment.
RS is going down and it looks like they are taking others down with them..
Once the existing RS scanner stock is liquidated, it's hard to see how either manufacturer could continue to supply RS with new product going into the future.