Vestax VCI 100 (None available in the UK)

Hello everyone, my first post in this excellent forum.

Been DJing for around 10 years now, and finally migrating to a Digital setup, and thanks to Ean Golden I've decided the VCI100 is what i want - unfortunately Vestax have lost their UK distributors and I believe are sourcing another one. Until then none are available in the UK (or none I can find)

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Does anybody know more information or any UK shops that have them in stock.

My I take this opportunity in thanking Ean Golden for all the excellent stuff I have found on this site and youtube. I salute you.

:)

Tried ebay?

There's one here, £20 bid so far, 2 days to run... Dunno if the other folk who are bidding one of the others there are staying off this because it says it was returned without a power cable, but mine never came with one anyway and it really doesn't need one - usb power is more than adequate :)

Good luck in your search!

I take it you are in the uk might know something

yup i can confirm that this is true .. my gf ordered me one before xmas and i'm still waiting. The last thing we heard was that Soundware the company she ordered from are having to source one direct from japan and i should have it by the end of the month ... fingers crossed!!! I'm gonna explode if i have to wait much longer !!!

tried at www.htfr.com? there pretty good.

Westend DJ have some B grade VCI 100s in stock right now (the units are brand new but the boxes are bashed and tatty so their selling them cheaper at 299 quid). They're also expecting to get new units delivered in the next 2 weeks, including the black VCI 100s.
I ordered my VCI 100 from these guys just before Christmas. Their customer service is excellent and the unit came the next day with free delivery.

Check them out at http://www.westenddj.co.uk/

Just type in vci 100 in the search box. It doesn't show the B stock if you type in Vestax for some reason.

Alternatively, decks.co.uk have a pretty sweet deal going right now. Their selling them for 335 with a 20 quid beatport voucher thrown in. They didn't have any stock in at christmas but they told me they were expecting a delivery mid January. They could be worth looking into.

Check them out here http://www.decks.co.uk/products/vestax/vci100

We have talked about this a few times too and everyone here agrees that there is absolutely nothing wrong with buying B stock :)

Thanks for the info Jon - i hope this helps out some of out UK users.

Htfr is your best bet, they will have some! That's where I got my black beast

Thinkin of gettin one of these b grade units as mine still isnt in and teh company are saying they ahve no idea when it will be in :( . Seems funny seen as they told me they were ordering direct from Japan. I would have thought this would sort of iradicate the problem with the UK supplier with regards to my order but it appears thats all they keep going on about so i'm thinkin they havent ordered one from Japan at all.

Anyway .. i need to check that this B grade stock is FW 1.2 .. how do you check again ? Something to do with a sticker ?

Cheers
Gav

Sounds to me like that company are just leading you on, mate. As far as I know all the vci 100s come with firmware 1.2 as standard these days. If you want to double check this, give WestendDJ a call before you order. They're usually really helpful.

Their number is at the top of their web page here

http://www.westenddj.co.uk/

i'm just off the blower to west end dj's and they ONLY have the b-grade VCI-100's (until a restock another week or so.)
he said there were "two or three there"

if you do ring to ask about the firmware, post it up here.

/If you can afford to pay more they got some black ones here:
http://www.thomann.de/gb/vestax.html...7a24ae7155d521

Cheers for everyones advice - I have one on order from west end dj - from japen. And its a nice fresh black one. They did have some B stock - but had trouble finding out what firm ware they had and they only came with a 6 months warrenty (from vestax). Which got me thinking - do i save money and get one now - but with a smaller warrenty. Or spend a little more and get a new Black one with a full year. What with the later in the end. cheers peeps

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Cheers for everyones advice - I have one on order from west end dj - from japen. And its a nice fresh black one. They did have some B stock - but had trouble finding out what firm ware they had and they only came with a 6 months warrenty (from vestax). Which got me thinking - do i save money and get one now - but with a smaller warrenty. Or spend a little more and get a new Black one with a full year. What with the later in the end. cheers peeps

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Cool, i think the black ones look alot nicer anyway :)

Enjoy your purchase - hope you enjoy it as much as everyone here has.

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Cool, i think the black ones look alot nicer anyway :)

Enjoy your purchase - hope you enjoy it as much as everyone here has.

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Oh, I intend to.

:)

Thanks again.

you could always support dj techtools and buy a brand new black VCi-100 from us!

They are back in the webstore and come with overlays + firmware upgrade

the dollar to pound aint very good at the min as i'm sure you all know, so it aint good us brits buying from america at the min :(

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the dollar to pound aint very good at the min as i'm sure you all know, so it aint good us brits buying from america at the min :(

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Very true, I did think about it - but cheaper to get the overlays on their own and hopefully, get the 1.3 firmware. Could do with a consortium over here in the UK to update from 1.2 to 1.3.

Ahhh, the loss of Vestax's UK distributer may explain something - The mother ordered me a set of Vestax (DM-01) headphones for me just before crimbo (from HTFR), but as of yesterday she still hadn't recieved them, so I told her just to cancel the order. HTFR continually said they were coming in, but never materialized..!

I got a used VCI-100 from fleabay myself. Only problem I have is that the previous owner had already registered the copy of Traktor, so he has to de-register it before I can use it (you get a 30 day trial though). I think I have about 4 days left of the trial to go before I can no longer use it! Just something to bear in mind / check if you are thinking of buying used.

Ross

This shop had some in December. He had a few too.

http://www.qualitydj.co.uk/vestax-vci-100-p-184.html

I just got a black one at www.djdeals.com for $499/free ship. Sorry DJTT, I would have got from you had I seen they were available before I bought this one. It's not the SE tho, just black..

so- just out of curiosity, where would the price need to be for a VCI-100 to make it worth while (with shipping included) buying from the UK or europe?

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so- just out of curiosity, where would the price need to be for a VCI-100 to make it worth while (with shipping included) buying from the UK or europe?

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For Australia they would have to come in at about $480.000 USD shipping included - our exchange rate isnt that crash hot at the moment since the economy crashed. VCI-100s are going for $750 -> $800 Australian here at the moment.

www.djdeals.com has silver, black and MixVibes editions in stock with software options. Free shipping...not sure about int. ship. They even have Ean's youtube vid as their demo.

Ean, i just bought fresh new VCI 100 (blk) in czech republic.

i got super lucky and bought it for just 384.181 USD (exact actual conversion from CZK). The shops on local internet with musical hardware started rapidly skyrocketing the prices on pro equipment, so in the next store VCI 100 is worth f*kin 632.316 USD!!! the reason is in current czk to euro exchange, czk is having trend to go downhill since new year's...

so i guess, price for VCI 100 SE in your shop is very reasonable.

I actualy made the mistake of buying VCI 100 before checking up availibility of firmware upgrade kits in your store. (OT. right now i am trying to abuse your old VCI 100 external mix mapping for Traktor 3.3, and can't wait to get my hands on firmware upgrade to smash my vci with 1.6 tsk!)