Thread: Kobo to release 32GB Kobo Aura One
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Old 12-19-2017, 09:11 PM   #19
davidfor
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Originally Posted by wayspooled View Post
You know, I don't know why Kobo is still in business. Their marketing decisions are so odd to me. I've wanted to buy a Kobo One for several years
Can I borrow your time machine? As the Kobo Aura ONE went on sale in October 2016, it hasn't been available for anything that could be called "several years". The only conclusion I can make is that you have used a time machine to travel back from several years in the future to make this post.

Note: This might seem like pedantry on my part, but when you start a post with such an obvious error, it makes me question anything else you write.
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but everytime I decide to, they're either sold out or not available or have released a new, shiny one (with more memory) at a higher price and never, ever ever, never reduce the cost of the old one. Unless my attention span is just interweaving some dance with their marketing. They can't be making much if any money, marketing like they do. I've even thought that maybe they're a money laundering thing by some cartel. I don't really think so, but my frustration has made me think it a couple times.
If, as you say, the device is continuously sold out, that suggests that they can't keep up with demand. In that case, why on earth would they reduce the price of the device? The usual rule for how much to charge for something is "what the market can bear". Sounds like they have hit the right price. Or are wondering if they should have charged more.
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