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Originally Posted by jswinden
They are like Apple in that regards--greedy a$$h***s.
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Not entirely true. Apple exercises pretty firm control of pricing on all their products even in the open market, and you rarely ever find any core Apple products marked significantly below the SRP. OTOH, Sony products do often get marked down by authorized retailers.
I think Sony's got their e-reader strategy all wrong (they're neither underpricing the hardware to boost the margin on the platform side nor doing a pure-hardware game like their notebook line), but that's a topic for a different thread. I still love my Sony readers though.