For new products where a company needs to make some $$ to recover initial setup and R&D charges then I can appreciate a high price tag, but company's get smarter and streamline costs across the board to make their products cheaper. In a perfect world they should therefore 'hopefully' reduce the price tag... but as if that's going to ever happen as lower overheads always means greater profit!
There was a post in here recently quoting a long email from an ex-employee from Garret turbos. He stated they cost *** all to make, maybe only $20 or so, and that even though parent company Honeywell were making huge profits they were still going to outsource the manufacturing to China because they could do it even cheaper. The bottom line counts in big business so you can ask whatever price people are willing to pay for your product, simple as that. If people stop buying Garrett turbos Honeywell will reduce the price because they can afford to, then people will buy again. Its simple supply and demand economics.
What I dont agree with is the high markup in the clothing sector. You can have the same shirt made in the same factory using the same cotton blend in China. One gets a no name brand tag, the other gets a name brand tag sewn into it with a coloured piece of cardboard to tell you what brand it is. In the shops the no name will be $20, the brand name $80!! The stupid consumer who decides to pay for the $80 shirt just creates more fat rich c*nts masturbating over the sound of their own voice when gathering around the corporate meeting table lol :lol:
