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11/24/09
Be warned, their non defective product return period keeps ticking down even if you were shipped a defective product in the first place.
11/24/09
Here's hoping once the money starts flowing even harder, we'll see even better stuff through spring and summer.
I guess the question now though is who to give credit to. Was this all HP's doing, or did Windows 7 play a role?
11/24/09
You must've worked so hard to get this in so early! Here's a raise, Poop Cooper! And here, this is my of-age supermodel daughter who needs someone to take her to her prom at a school where no one will judge her for dating someone clearly older, along with the keys to the Trojan Condom Mobile parked out front. If you need Viagra, you just give me a holler. But who am I kidding? You? Need viagra? Like you have any trouble getting going - this is the guy who got his work in two weeks early!
That's how you should've played it, HP.
07/30/09
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Look at the PSP Go for example. It costs Sony less to produce one than it does to produce the PSP 3000, yet they charge $80 more for the PSP Go. When questioned about that, one of Sony's Euro execs pretty much stated the increase in price for the PSP Go was due to the fact that new technology should be priced higher; and that it is expected by the consumer. Maybe someone should question Sony about their definition of new technology, as the PSP tech has been around for five years now.
And true the PS3 is losing money on every console sold, and is probably the only product Sony sells that they honestly are in no position to reduce price on. however that does not mean that all the other consumer electronics products that Sony carries are in the same position. Most CE devices from every CE company on the block, are sold at a markup. Yet Sony's CE devices sell for hundreds and in some case thousands of dollars more than competing products from the likes of Samsung, Toshiba, LG, Panasonic and the list of affordably priced competition is endless.
Sony maybe could get away with premium pricing if they actually offered products that were truly light years ahead of competing products (like their marketing department claims Sony products are). However, when a Korean company like Samsung can make televisions every bit (if not better) as good as Bravia, and sell them for hundreds of dollars less, where is the real incentive to purchase a Sony branded television?
And this was already a problem that was causing Sony major fiscal troubles years before the current, global economic crisis. Now factor in the global recession, the wild currency fluctuations of late, and the written in stone, policy of across the board premium pricing at Sony, and you have a cookbook recipe for a company on the verge of going under sometime in the next five years.
04/23/09
If they didn't turn up a profit at all, they'd scoop up Ballmer like Homer Stokes and ride him out on a rail.
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That flash drive that you paid $15 for probably costs a few cents to produce individually, thus the markup on that cheap flash drive is probably similarly proportioned to this product.
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How many of you "outraged" posters work at cost? You could be fed, clothed and housed for $10/day, why don't you ask for a paycut if you think taking profit is immoral or a ripoff?
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My advice is to not allow the cost of production to sway you, but rather how much a product provides to you personally for the amount it asks for in retail.
How much do you think those sneakers you're probably wearing cost to make?
04/13/09
How much do you think those sneakers you're probably wearing cost to make?
Take a pair of high priced sneakers and disassemble them. You'll be amazed at the layers of stuff that goes into them. Different types of rubber, layers of different types of foam, air bladders and more in some of the fanciest basketball shoes. Shoes have come a long way from the old rubber cupsoles.
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