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| james_s:
--- Quote from: vk6zgo on January 12, 2021, 12:20:33 am ---Manufacturers have a perfect "out", especially with household items-------- they simply reduce the quality of the "prestige" brands, so that they are just as bad as the "El Cheapo" option. --- End quote --- It's less insidious than that. They acquire the "prestige brand" and then cost reduce the products, reducing the quality in the process but the goal is only to reduce the cost. Then they ride it out, extracting as much profit from the brand as possible until the reputation runs out. Wash, rinse, repeat. It's like mining fossil fuels, it took many years for those brands to build up their potential and then companies come along and gobble them up and wring everything they can out of it before throwing away the carcass. |
| SilverSolder:
Will we eventually run out of "good brands"? |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on January 17, 2021, 08:37:54 pm --- Will we eventually run out of "good brands"? --- End quote --- As others turn to junk there is more room for a new company to sprout up building good quality gear, build up a reputation and then eventually get bought out by one of these companies that goes around buying up companies and extracting everything they can from them and the cycle continues. |
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