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Originally Posted by jswinden
Marketing experts know how to play us!
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Then they'd better get back to school and learn to play again. If your statement is true, I would have replaced my KPW1 (and many other devices) thrice over.
Choosing anything always goes the same with me:
1. I set a budget I wish to keep within +/- 10% or so, and scratch anything exceeding it.
2. From the remaining, I select the products that have the features I just *must* have.
3. From that selection, I select the products that have the features I'd like to have.
4. Then, I go by looks and/or price.
If I fail at step 2 (no products left within my budget), there are two choices:
1. I forget about acquiring this article, possibly forever Case in point: I'd really like a real rangefinder camera, but the only ones are the Leica's. Even the old 2006 M8 and 2007 M8-II often command prices north of €1500, and I'm not willing to pay that much; let alone the €4500 for a new M240.
2. I wait until prices drop, or save longer, or a new product appears, possibly waiting for years. Case in point: my Eizo monitor. I just wanted a ColorEdge or similar monitor as the replacement of my old, but very serviceable FlexScan, but the most CE-monitors offered WAY more than I needed, with stuff for creating video's and 3D stuff in special color spaces.... until about 1,5 to 2 years ago, when Eizo released a CE-monitor offering the 'basics' (basics as in professional color management terms that is), for half the price of previous CE-monitors. They 'coincidentally' cut all the 'crap' I didn't need, and kept everything I did want. It was the entree-level CE-monitor, but that still places it like two classes above any 'normal' monitor on the market.
I buy whatever I want, as close to 'perfect' (for me) as possible, and if no product gets close enough, I buy nothing. No marketing has ever managed to change my mind on that.