doing a little more research for my brother's birthday, he wanted a pronto. I ended up buying it from etronixs- there customer service was outstanding and I received it within 2 days. There are alot of internet companies selling this that I talked to and they could learn alot from etronixs.
Here are the prices they quoted me:

green pronto $299 shipped
silver pronto $329 shipped
dock station was $59.95 shipped.

I am sure there are other great deals out there, just do the research

I second this recommendation. After reading this forum for about 3 months, I ordered my green Pronto and (silver - does it come in green?) docking station from Etronixs last Thursday and it arrived on Monday. Straight up pricing - no shipping or handling charges. Looks virgin - not used and repackaged, and best I can tell U.S. legal. Looking forward to programing it. I have had ProntoEdit on my laptop for a month and have downloaded about 4 ccf's that have components I have. I'll merge them just to get started and most likely create two ccf's - one wife-friendly and one more manual and detailed for the hi-fi geek in me.

Dan, this site is tremendous as is the cult that is the Pronto fans. Everyone keep up the good work and play!

I will third that motion. I purchased my Philips pronto from etronixs.com also. They had a very friendly customer service and shipped the pronto with great care. I ordered it and received it within 3 day's! They did not charge anything for shipping. Plus they told me if I was not happy with the pronto or got tired of it, I could trade it in for the RTI trade in promo they have. I highly suggest etronixs.com

Mike: the charger is only available in silver.

Im from Mexico and got my silver Pronto from IEC advertised on ebay, the price please..... $269 +sh
great deal and even better service. I sure recomend these guys.

The link:
[Link: cgi.ebay.com]

Thanks for the tip.
I read your suggestion of Etronix earlier today... needed a docking station... called them at 2:30 eastern and purchased the docking station for $59.95. I received a UPS tracking number at 6:00 pm with a scheduled delivery time of Monday 28 Aug. 2000.

Thanks for the tip

Al

One of the workeres where I ordered my Pronto told me what he did was go to Walmart and get one of those Battery chargers and a set of 4 rechargeable AA's and use them , usually for less than the docking station. You might get 2 sets of AA's to have one set ready to go and just exchange them when needed.


Bill

Bill, this is correct. But you do not need 2 sets since the charging time is 30 minutes to 90% capacity or overnight to a full charge.

make sure you are getting the NI-MH type batteries and not NI-CD !!!

P. Vardi

Got my Silver Pronto on EBay.com for $295.00 + $7.50 for shipping...just last week

I just got my silver pronto from IEC advertised on Ebay. It came factory fresh and packed very well. For $279.50 shipped, you just can't beat the price and the service is excellent. I also bought the docking station from etronixs for 59.99 shipped. Excellent service as well, but their pronto price was $329 for the silver pronto so I went with IEC. I highly recommend IEC. Thanks Pinny.

IEC:

Etronxs:


-Sam

When shopping, don't forget that etronixs.com offers a $10 discount to Remote Central users. That could help close any price gap.

Thanks Sam.

Due to great success and customers like you, we continue the sale of the Silver Pronto at $269.00 during this "Labor Day Weekend"

[Link: cgi.ebay.com]