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Originally Posted by theducks
Just another marker in the book that the Factory does not "get it" 
Astak "Got it" 
Apple may have started it when they broke the "Beige" mold, years ago.
Just walk into any store selling modern portable (and not so portable) Electronics.
Phones, Laptops, Media Players, even Headsets: COLOR
Black is so Henry Ford 
The Factory (and Astak) need to come up with another way to Badge (brand) the products that does not require custom silk screening of the cases.
That is what requires big lots of each color for a single distributor to keep the price point.
2 tone might work.  The Back and Battery cover always the same (a Neutral color), with only the front, being the custom color. |
Dear Duckey:
Right now things are pretty tough. It seems SO frustrating. If I bitch too much I could get fired.
Essentially, it would seem to my small mind that a factory would want the following:
1. What feedback the seller gathers from its end users that might increase sales.
2. What the competition is doing on things like colors offered and the price they are selling at.
3. What can the factory do to compete more effectively.
In a perfect world, this would be well worth it to the factory as orders would constantly grow. I support this business model.
Therefore, with my polls on colors and what the competition is doing with colors and HOW the Pocket PRO sold nicely with colors in place... you would expect that the factory would demand that we order in colors and have no minimum per color. We should be able to say: "Give me 900 in black, 900 in Blue, 800 in White, 600 in Metallic Purple, 600 in Maroon, 400 of the new Metallic Green color, 500 of the new Silver Blue and 200 pink".
Unfortunately, wanting colors is all on our shoulders and we have to pay more plus deal with high minimums.
This seems to my brain like a case of senseless bickering that breeds no winners... and I want to win for once! Clearly I must be missing something!