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| Psi:
Yeah, I'm more thinking of situations where the company could cut retail prices by 50% and they'd still be raking in billions in profit and have no problem paying back ROI over a reasonable time. |
| tautech:
--- Quote from: Psi on February 05, 2023, 11:21:00 pm ---Yeah, I'm more thinking of situations where the company could cut retail prices by 50% and they'd still be raking in billions in profit and have no problem paying back ROI over a reasonable time. --- End quote --- :) Seriously, what that might be ? Whom might determine that ? We have some products that haven't changed in 10 years except for SW and others just a few years old like your DSO that were discounted USD400 for the last 2 months of 2022. Really :( you didn't benefit. Would either be sold at a loss, that I very much doubt however there was some tightrope walking done with price setting I won't go into. :-X We see new products released for what seems considerably more than imagined and it's only when we examine competing products pricing we see why it's been priced that way, in short we see competition sets the price of what the marketplace can withstand. |
| Psi:
--- Quote from: tautech on February 05, 2023, 11:43:24 pm ---in short we see competition sets the price of what the marketplace can withstand. --- End quote --- yep, it always boils down to maximizing profits. In any case, test equipment is a specialized industry. Not really what I'm talking about. |
| tautech:
--- Quote from: Psi on February 05, 2023, 11:51:53 pm ---In any case, test equipment is a specialized industry. Not really what I'm talking about. --- End quote --- Why would the TE industry unlike be any other needing to maximise profits ? :-// Should we be distinguishing between a ROI and a ROC ? Should any one items cost represent a little of both ? I believe it should as shareholders expect a return on their investment. |
| coppercone2:
I feel like test equipment is incredibly proportional to scientific progress. In the long term its better if the margins are lower for society IMO, I feel like some people have the idea that its a luxury good... but it leads to game changing scientific breakthroughs.Some things are priced so its like big corporations only, which don't necessarily have the smartest people, or the best intentions. Kinda like the prices of that stuff decide how cool the future will be in like.. 10-20 years. And literal testing (wide scale) is how you decide if a technology is ready for wide spread adoption. Is it reliable? Does it always perform? Can we decide to make a million of the thing? If you have data from good test equipment (with good people), and alto of it, the answer might be yes. And research always goes better when people are using the same equipment families IMO. Easier to transition between companies, spread information, easier to hire people since their pre trained (exactly so), etc. And its more trusted because it can be replicated exactly, no researchers are saying "well we need super expensive box #23 to really be sure we can start this project....." |
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