Teenage Engineering has announced a series of flipped out ’25 offers: in June 2025, you can pick your own OP-1 Field price.
Update: the discount is also now available at retailers like Thomann or Perfect Circuit
When discussing the Swedish company Teenage Engineering in the synth community, the talk always turns to their polarizing pricing policy. No matter how good or bad a new TE product is, price is always the issue.
Teenage Engineering is now responding to this issue and has launched the Flipped Out ’25 offers. But there’s a reason for these offers.
Teenage Engineering Flipped Out ’25 Offers
The Flipped Out ’25 offers aren’t a traditional sale like other companies offer. Teenage Engineering utilizes these to analyze the market and determine how much customers are willing to pay for their products. They describe it as an experiment over several months.
This is a delicate experiment. And a question. It’s about why, how, and why not? It’s for us to understand the market, for us to figure out how you think, how you act. And if it’s possible to really please you 100%.This is also a reflection of the world and the time we live in. Let’s try new things! Good things. Try crazy ideas – like what would happen if people voted with their wallets? What if it was up to you? Well now it is.
Pick Your Own OP–1 Field Price
First Impression
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Damn, sold out immediately!
I see it on stock
hmm, not here in the US- checkout leaves you only with a “notify me” button and a “sold out” message.
haha, I even tried “$1499” just to see if the inventory gods would be kinder, but no go.
Everybody, choose your price: from 0 to whatever you want.
Teenage Engineering: Yes! From 1 400 to 10 000 bucks 😀
Considering that the original OP1 was on sale for around €750, before all the hype…
Personally, I think €750 + inflation and component shortages + improved features should probably result in a maximum price of around €1,100 today, which probably satisfied all, buyers as well as the company.
But €999.99 is clearly the ideal psychological price for this device, in my opinion, it is the “first psychological bareer”.
€1,399 is too close to €1,500 (second psychological bareer !), which is psychologically close to the actual normal price €1,800… again, in my opinion.
I’ll keep an eye out for the OP XY, but even with a lower price, it won’t make all the bugs disappear, but who knows!
I think you are spot on and I bet you their data will show something quite similar if not the same. The barriers may very slightly from country to country or currency to currency. It’s funny to think about where and who (apple surely in part) are responsible for where these barriers lie and when and why they shift. The thousand dollar iPhone for instance. Something most of us have never grown to stomach so they found a way to mask that by spreading its absurd retail cost over months combined with a cellular plan. But yeah it’s a physical thing too like for 1500 I also psychologically want something bigger. We are paying for miniaturization of things that are already too small to work on.
This is nothing but a stupid way to do a sale for $1399. Honestly, who would select $9999? This company is so stupid and their tactics are an insult to musicians.
You neither have to buy their stuff, nor perceive a company’s marketing as a personal attack. Why do people actively go looking for stuff to complain about, I ask myself.
because they are to expensive and now make s crazy “Sale” i don’t buy anything by Them. Sold my Pocket Operators and i am bald.
Mr Bad Gear Had to Take a Video because of this swedish Clowns.
It must be a US thing, actually, because I used a VPN just now and transported myself to Switzerland, and it was in stock.
But it was in (US) stock earlier when I started the checkout process… just gone by the time I was ready to finish up.
Aaaaaand again TE: blowing hot air for nothing. Just say, it’s a limited time special for $1399 and nothing else. Nooo, they have to celebrate and blow it up, like they are saving the gear industry. Pathetic.
It’s just marketing and have you considered, that they really are trying the “name your price” model to offer probably cheaper prices in the future?
Great, TE, take my 490 bucks!
I wouldn’t buy it for 399.
It’s Fadergate all over again, my slider won’t go below $1399 for some reason…
Instead of announcing the device is now worth much less and discounting it how about just adding more unique features and updates so that people are actually justified in spending the original asking price. I prefer to read about how an interesting granular engine or a chorus fx was added and not about my purchase being worth much less.
Masters of flim-flam. Two hundred years ago these guys would be travelling around in a wagon selling magic tonics.
Or maybe their sales have gone down so(oooo!), they thought: oh, maybe we’ve been a little (waaay) too greedy…
I know I just complained about this but I was being unfair and I would definitely encourage anyone who was considering buying the device to grab one because it is a very unique synth and the lower price is a solid savings. I just really want to see any profits put into continued development and hopefully this campaign achieves that.
i honestly would not even buy one for $100. Only to sell it.
My price is take my OP1 in as a trade towards the Field. I’d give $500 plus my old OP1 that’s mint.