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Old Mar 10, 2008 | 9:49 pm
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Well, while the price may seem a bit low, I think it is much better to swell the ranks of 1P and 2P, than 1K as in the past. This is smart marketing. It will not interfere with upgrade opportunities for 1Ks with CR1s and SWUs. Instead, it seeks to keep the potential future 1Ks in the program. Also there is a much larger pool to extract the $400 from...The worst that could happen is a slight devaluation of 1P status ie maybe e500 upgrades will be a bit harder to come by. The more I think about it the more sense it makes. ^
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