apex wrote:Bach42t wrote:I am not sure why you guys got to pre order this thing??? The economy is in the crapper, we are all the early birds and they make enough for us.
well I'll tell you this...
prices are not in stone.
If I was Korg,
if I had failed the mass comercialization of a very good product (Oasys)
if my current endeavour was mass-selling the same technology in a new affordable and more giggable package
if a 30 seconds teaser of my new product had received comments by 20.000 people in 5 days,
showing plenty of divergence among expectations and reactions, with wide technical acclaim but somehow pensive reactions to price,
while my previous product had sold just 3000 pieces, mainly due to a miscalculated price stragey,
and if I had 3 months in front of me before really releasing the product,
and if the break-even on my new product was strongly linked to an optimized ratio bwtween unity price and numbers sold (as opposed to the Oasys whose price couldn't fall because of the huge R&D cost)
a)
I would be throwing around a lot of ballons d'essai
b)
I would be posting everywhere "fake" (better: "test") prices, or have somebody do it for me,
c)
I would be getting pre-sales specials then announce further rebatesif necessary, (nobody backtracks from a pre-buy if he is told that he will spend less then he has budgeted)
e)
I would keep people on their toes about availability of the product, I would keep mum about quantity produced, and I would use EVERY single day of these 3 months, until the very last, to hone my strategy
But maybe Korg thinks different, it already has a final price established, and will not correct it no matter what people say or do
