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Re: OMG!

Byron Desnoyers Winmill <wbdesnoy@acs5.acs.ucalgary.ca> wrote in message
news:9d7l1m$7hi$1@nserve1.acs.ucalgary.ca...

> In article <c65_200105070616@juge.com> you wrote:
> : It is not unprecidented for someone to spend more for use of a machine
than it
> : cost to buy it.  These ccheap printers come to mind.  Also game
machines.  You
> : spend almost as much for a cartridge for a printer than you do on the
printer
> : itself.  A game machine is $150 (?) and good games can be $80.  So it
doesn't
> : take long to pay more for software than you did for the base model.

> In all probability, these printers and games consoles are cheap because
the
> manufacturer expects to make money from the ink and game cartridges.  Hook
> the consumer with the low price, then make them pay down the road.  This
is
> a marketing strategy.

You don't make money selling razors.  You make it selling blades.  :)  OLD
old Gillette marketing strategy.

--chris