Special pricing in most cases is usually offered to individuals who in turn assist with promotion, marketing or development (e.g Style Programming etc) of some sort. If a customer should offer these services even today (and they are needed), we in turn would offer them the special price too - even through their dealer or sales person.

The SD7 has come a long way from when it was released and the issues referred to above have since been resolved. As we move into the SD40, these lessons learned will definitely follow suit.