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If sales as down 50% at the current price, then surely they will exponentially more at the higher price. Consider these forums and how price sensitive we all are, a small % price increase in a D700 becomes an entire thread.
GM is a poor example. In 2001, it wasn't the entire car industry that was suffering, we were not suffering a global recession and the US dollar was not in freefall.
And on this planet, a gobal recession not only impatcs on sales, but combined with the freefall of the dollae, increasing prices amounts to pouring gasoline on a fire.
And so will sales. Increasing prices, especially during a global finacial crisis, could lead to an exponential drop in sales. A small profit margins on some sales is surely preferable to a larger profit margin on none.
Nikon, like all international businesses, are stuck between a rock and a hard place. Still, there is no guarantee that their current stratergy will not also drive them out of business.
Not me, I had nothing to do with it.
My houses are paid for.
Agreed! This is why I have always said if you can't pay the CC statement off in full when it arrives you have no business buying anything.
Yep! Guess what? I saved and invested only to find my "nest egg" going to support the people that didn't save for their future. Looking back, I'm the fool as the ones that spent like there's no tomorrow are the smart ones as they will get bailed out with my money.
NONSENSE!! I have two trailers to pull and I can't do that with a hybrid. I don't care if fuel goes to $10 a gallon I will buy it as I can afford it. It's stupid and uneconomical buying a vehicle that is underpowered and incapable of doing the job. It's cheaper to keep the guzzlers as they are paid off and can pull anything that can be hitched to them.
Nope! This is your war, not mine. I didn't vote for Bush, but I get to pay for his stupidity and his war crimes.
Yep, just as long as they were getting their cuts.
Nope! I got my act together. I don't owe anybody anything I can't write a check for.
Wrong! I didn't ask for illegal immigration, but I get to pay for everyone of them that swim across the Rio Grand and spit out an anchor baby.
Apart from Freddie and Fannie, there was also the deregulation mania, where investment banks gearing their derivatilve investments by 30:1 and creating ponzie schemes that no one could make sens of.
Yeah, that sounds good. Actually I'm with you on most of the issues. I don't owe anyone a nickel. Have zero balance on my one credit card. Live in a modest house I bought 24 years ago. Yada yada yada. But your wrong on the big SUV. You only need it to pull those trailers because you have the trailers. Get rid of the trailers, and whatever you use the trailers to carry, and then get rid of the big SUV. Then, and only then, will I elevate you to full saint status. For now you are only a probationary saint In the last 4 months you were going to spend ~$24,000 (US prices) for four lenses and the best DSLR on the planet.
Let's see you operate a business at a prolonged loss and see how long you put up with it before you walk away. Easy to complain as a consumer but come on man, get real. Someone should make a sticky on this forum about why Nikon has to increase prices and why businesses exist to MAKE money; not give it away. That's the nature of business. Call it greed, or whatever but they do it to make money. Simple as that. Thom explained it well a few times here...
Illegal immigrants, of course. I have no problem with legal immigration. Heck, I don't mind if they come over here legally and we send them to Harvard, buy them a house and car. I just refuse to accept the fact that I have reward 20+ million illegals with citizenship and all the perks that come with it.
Well, in my defense, I must say I earned the privileged to spew massive amounts on noxious fumes in the atmosphere. You see, I paid for part of the Korean war and I wasn't even born yet. I almost had the Vietnam war paid off, but I had to bankroll "Operation Dessert Storm" in the early 90s. Being a good American I'm paying for this latest lunacy. Granted, we need to build up Iraq before we take care of our own.Regarding your responses, of course I was using the royal we in my
comments. What I really meant to say was that you and I are both
saints - it's everybody else that screwed the world up.
that sounds good. Actually I'm with you on most of the issues. I
don't owe anyone a nickel. Have zero balance on my one credit card.
Live in a modest house I bought 24 years ago. Yada yada yada. But
your wrong on the big SUV. You only need it to pull those trailers
because you have the trailers. Get rid of the trailers, and whatever
you use the trailers to carry, and then get rid of the big SUV. Then,
and only then, will I elevate you to full saint status. For now you
are only a probationary saint
He previously paid $25,000 for $24,000 worth of gear. Why should he pay more than $24,000 for $24,000 worth of gear?
