Are you fed up with the ever increasing cost of Canon gear?

MikeJ9116 wrote:

Sittatunga wrote:

MikeJ9116 wrote:

Sittatunga wrote:

MikeJ9116 wrote:

Everybody Canon has always milked buyers for as much as they can for their medium to upper tier products. What they are doing now isn't new to them. A lot of people complain about the high prices and then give them their money for overpriced gear. It is a cycle that has gone on for the past 100-150 years.

I'm not completely convinced. The 80/20 rule says you get 80% of the result for 20% of the effort, hence the good value of the medium to lower tier products. It's the final 20% that represents 80% of the cost and effort.

Pentacon tried something better but I would have hated living in the DDR. So did the USSR, but with very little incentive for quality assurance or stock control or improvements. A functioning market might have either changed that or killed the industry.

I think Canon's medium tier is mostly over priced too. Many things run in cycles. Political systems, Sun cycles, seasons etc.

We all have different priorities and different ideas of what things should cost. But it's the stuff pulling up in warehouses that's overpriced, not the stuff that's in short supply.

Overpriced is overpriced. Short supply just makes it more overpriced.

The prices too high for you and your perception of what the products are actually worth. I have that problem with Apple.  But that's my problem, not theirs and it didn't stop me recommending an iPhone to my sister. The R5 and R6 are too expensive for me, but that doesn't make them overpriced, it's just that they are more capable than I actually need. Maybe there's a bubble, in which case it will burst sooner or later. But it's the stuff piling up in warehouses and the August Bank Holiday Sale prices still being advertised near mid-September that are the real indicators of overpriced goods.

Like I said, many people complain about price then their consumerism instinct combined with marketing manipulation prods them into paying more than they think they should. Canon has become a master at overpricing, market manipulation and at times limiting supply to drive up prices even further.

Can you give any specific instances? Or are you confusing them with Leica? I can understand Leica limiting supply, it's what exclusivity is all about, but how does limiting supply help Canon's aim to be the biggest seller in the market?

I am not singling out Canon here either. Plenty of companies do the same. This is why I hardly ever become an early adopter of anything.