Yesterday this was $3348 at most stores, today presumably a manufacturers rebate down to $2749 at most retailers and $1 cheaper at JB Hi-Fi.
However! If you use their "Seen it cheaper? Ask for a deal!" live chat function (9am - 5pm), you can get it discounted even further!
I was able to get down to $2199, and looking at PriceMe the cheapest these have ever sold is $2697!
Didnt even have to do that - just said can you do this for a better price. Straight to $2199.
Oracle jet uses a single boiler (or thermal jet)so it's a bit of a downgrade from the classic Oracle because you can only do one thing at a time (pull shots or steam milk)
At this price I think they should've really sticked with to the fundamentals from the OG
Well you can queue pulling the shot and steaming the milk, so as soon as the coffee starts coming out you don't have to do anything until the milk is finished.
for this price it better cleans the pool too
@Zyo, you’re right about the single boiler, for that price twin boiler should be mandatory! I still have an old Sunbeam twin boiler and that’s a feature I couldn’t live without.
I saw the picture thumbnail, and thought for a moment that this was a very expensive toaster.
so its not a toaster?
I have the OG Oracle and it's great! I bought it for about 1899 at Harvey Norman a few years ago. It's sad this new one is not dual boiler though. I think it's an important feature.
As a bit of a coffee geek, I think $2199 is only a reasonable price for this machine - an automated single boiler machine.
I personally think there is a limit to how good an automated coffee can taste with the current technology with these machines, and a graph of machine price on x axis and coffee quality on y axis is a logarithmic curve.
The Breville barista express would be where the curve starts to flatten out in my opinion.
I'd think if you were to spend $3k upwards on a coffee machine, you'd be pretty serious about coffee and would start branch out at more manual extractions and invest in a proper grinder.
Hey guys, this isn't a boiler machine like many implied above. It's using a very good thermojet system. I was originally quite skeptical (I use a bes920), but after reading around it sorta makes sense to improve efficiency (you don't have to boil a whole tank every start up etc. I think they also come with baratza burrs now.
Unlike the other breville thermojet systems, this one also heats up the portafilter (traditionally only found on the boiler and thermoblock systems).
I currently steam and brew same time on my BES920. But this 30 second addition plus not needing to worry about o-rings etc is a reasonable trade off.
Who did you link to for the ‘seen it cheaper’ part?