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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington
You probably ought to look at the close-out and discount electronics websites. Lots of really good stuff really cheap! Especially since you don't mind the color pink!
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Any place/places in particular that you'd care to recommend?
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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington
And it still doesn't seem to make any economic sense for the manufacturers to make thousands of units in a color that very few people will buy, only to sell them at a serious discount later. It would seem to make MORE sense to make fewer, more bland, units and sell accessories to personalize those units.
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Not enough information. Like what the percentage of a companies product is pink, how many units is made in that color, what percentage of what's produced is profitable, whether that profit makes up for what has to be liquidated.
I'd assume that they have people to figure that out and if they keep making pink products it would seem that they must either feel that it's beneficial to them, or that it's not harmful enough for them to stop producing them entirely.
As for Sony in particular and only with their e-readers, they've had two pink options that I'm aware of. The 300 and now the 350. The 300 had two other color options, the 350 has one other color option. It stands to reason that the amount produced of each color will be determined by how much demand they have, so the pink color shouldn't hurt them unless they get really carried away with how many they make.
As for using accessories, which I take to mean skins, I honestly never gave it any thought. Will definitely go take a look to see what's available for the Sony Readers and laptops while I'm at it, I just hope that I don't end up being tempted into buying the 950.
As for your point, if accessories can satisfactorily alter a bland color than it should also be able to satisfactorily alter a repulsive color. If it was a common practice people would simply buy something in any color and then customize accordingly. This thread is about pink being discounted quite frequently, this would indicate that the starter color is very important, in which case it only makes sense for companies to use colors that they think appeal to their targeted demographic.