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| inflated pricing Smart phones should not be $600.. they are ripping the consumer off.. the cost of making these devices since the iphone (gen2) have been cut by neary 30% and yet they still love these wack-job gouging prices! A top of the line smart phone should be $450, tops (with every possible feature you could imagine).. not $600+ yet, there are millions of people who keep falling for the higher prices scam all the time.
Also, in an industry which is seeing that $99 price tag of unlimited everything wireless (a rarity now), Verizon is a last hold-out at this high pricing for post paid accounts**. Leave it to someone to point out that Verizon has a majority interest in its wireless licenses/technology standard and deployed network to try to justify higher pricing... good luck!
Prepaid is the biggest growth in the wireless industry because of it's low pricing, yet the quality of the phones are terrible-- many of the lower quality phones are nearly featureless (compared with smart phones). |
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 danclan
join:2005-11-01
Midlothian, VA | simply free the phones from the providers....that is to say...let the phone makers sell phones and the carriers sell air time...
then the phone will either sell on its own or fail...the european way works just fine and everyone makes money and there is competition....but thats just crazy talk here in the us with just 3-4 real nationwide carriers... |
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dynodbPremium,VIP
join:2004-04-21
Minneapolis, MN | reply to tmc8080
We're not talking about a necessity here. The value of nearly any given item is what people are willing to pay for it. If enough people are buying at $600, then no, it's not a "scam", and it shouldn't be $450 "tops" regardless of what it cost to manufacture it. |
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 bjf123We Want... A ShrubberyPremium
join:2000-02-11
Hamilton, OH | reply to tmc8080
said by tmc8080:Smart phones should not be $600.. they are ripping the consumer off.. the cost of making these devices since the iphone (gen2) have been cut by neary 30% and yet they still love these wack-job gouging prices! A top of the line smart phone should be $450, tops (with every possible feature you could imagine).. not $600+ yet, there are millions of people who keep falling for the higher prices scam all the time. Other than making sure the cost to manufacture doesn't exceed the selling price (and there are time when companies will intentionally do that), the selling price has nothing to do with the cost to produce. Right now, I'm wearing a limited edition Tag Heuer watch. At home, I've got watches by Rolex, Breitling, Oris, Ebel, and two other Tags. I also have a Citizen. The higher end watches cost anywhere from 10 to 25 times the price of the Citizen. Do they cost that much more to manufacture? Doubt it. They can get the higher prices because of a perceived value. It's the same with cell phones. If you don't think a particular phone is worth a certain amount, don't buy it. That's like me saying that I want a new Mercedes E Class, but only want to pay $30,000 for it. Not gonna happen.
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