Did anyone else (like me) consider getting the VP180 at the introductory price to replace their VP100 or VP150 but decided to hold off and "trade up" their existing centre at a later time when the VP180 was officially released at "full price", only now to find out the trade up program is gone? I was fully aware that we couldn't use the "trade up program" on the introductory price of the VP180, but figured on trading up since I don't need 2 centres.

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