Surface Duo 2 still isn’t an instant buy at $999, according to Windows Central readers
$999 isn’t enough to win over everyone.
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What’s a Duo 2 to do when a 33%-off sale still isn’t enough to lure in a large portion of people? That’s Microsoft’s question to answer in the coming months and years, since we’ve now seen that even a sizeable chunk of the tech enthusiasts on WCaren’t sold by the ideaof a $999 Duo 2.
BecauseSurface Duo 2recently saw its price drop by $500 acrossAmazon, Best Buy, and Microsoft’s own storefront, it seemed like a good time to ask readers if this was an enticing enough price point compared to the device’s original starting tag of $1,500, which many have cited as prohibitively high. As it turns out, even $500 off isn’t enough to sway the majority.
Over 43% of voters still said that a $999 price wouldn’t make them consider a Duo 2. Just over 40% of respondents said it would. A little under 11% voted that they’d bought a Duo 2 before the discounted price, and 5.7% voted that they had, in fact, put money behind their words and actually bought the Duo 2 as a direct result of the price drop.
A couple of commenters in the poll post noted common sentiments that have been brought up since the dawn of Duo 2: That they’ll save their pennies and wait for a superior Duo 3 to come along, or buy Duo 2 if/when it starts having fire sales much like Duo 1 did back in 2021. After all, why spend $1,500 or even $999 when, with a little patience, you may not have to spend more than $500?
With Android 12L incoming, Surface Duo 2’s future is looking bright. If you want to get your paws on the experimental gadget now, ahead of the Android update’s arrival, you can do so for $500 off the usual MSRP.
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Robert Carnevale is the News Editor for Windows Central. He’s a big fan of Kinect (it lives on in his heart), Sonic the Hedgehog, and the legendary intersection of those two titans, Sonic Free Riders. He is the author ofCold War 2395. Have a useful tip? Send it to robert.carnevale@futurenet.com.
