Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 01:55:49 10/31/98
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On October 30, 1998 at 23:31:49, Gary Foerster wrote: >On October 29, 1998 at 20:15:48, Reynolds Takata wrote: > >>I can just imagine that i purchase some stock for >>80$ a share, and a week later, or the next day for that matter it sells, for >>40$. I can't go to my broker and say get me back some money from the company. > >This is an interesting example. As an investor, if I bought stock for $80 >and the next day it dropped to $40, I would sell it to cut my losses and not >buy anymore stock from that company. Not sure what this has to do with the >issue of cutting the price of a product two weeks after release though. This >move by Rebel only hurts the loyal customers who bought early or pre-ordered. >It's not the money at issue here either, it's the principle of the matter that >most people have issue with. The analogy with stocks is false. My wife buys a lot of clothes and shoes and so on. When she buys something, then notices a short time later that it has come down in price, she goes back to the store and asks for an "adjustment", which means basically that they give her the difference in the price of the item now and what she paid for it. If they won't do that, she will probably take the item back to the store and get her money back. If I had bought Rebel 10 from a dealer, I would either ask for an adjustment. If I didn't get it, I would hope that I could return it, since I'd only had it for two weeks. Then I would buy it again at the lower price. I've done this with software I've bought in stores. I bought something for $45 and noticed it in another store for $40, so I simply took it back and bought it at the other store. I've even said so when they ask why I returned it. I don't see why this is different. Don't the dealers you guys buy from have a return policy? bruce
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