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Old 10-23-2010, 10:11 AM   #40
Kali Yuga
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Originally Posted by eGeezer View Post
Uh-huh. Yep. We all believe $139 is waaaaaay above cost.
Who is this "we?" As far as I can tell, not a lot of people believe Amazon is making huge profits off the hardware right now.

Plus, if you really think the only costs for an item are what a teardown website claims, then clearly you've never run a business. Even though Amazon doesn't have to pay a retailer, it does have to pay taxes, inventory, shipping, support, warranty repairs, marketing, advertising and so forth.


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There can't be any doubt in any intelligent person's mind that Amazon was contemplating the price drop for more that a full week its the announcement....
Considering that Amazon made the announcement a few hours after B&N dropped the price of the Nook, there's plenty of reason to doubt it.

Nor does that really matter. If I'm selling a widget, and someone wants a one-time large order, I'm not going to base a discount price off of what I might charge 3 months down the road.

And again, the price dropped significantly just a few months ago. I'm fairly confident that Amazon's costs did not fall by 50% in the last 3 months....


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I don't even bother to go look at a "sale" of 10% because it is a token offer.
You also don't buy 2,000 Kindles at a single time.

If they saved $15 off of each one, that's a $30,000 discount off the order. I'd say that's pretty significant.
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