On Friday 13 January 2012 21:24:04 Rony wrote: > On 01/12/2012 09:02 PM, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote: > > On 12 January 2012 21:40, Swapnil Bhartiya <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Who is going to by XYZ china made TV? > > > > Famous last words. Nokia asked the same a while back, who is going to > > buy XYZ China made phone? > > > > A good 42 inch LCD costs upwards of Rs. 45,000. If someone can make > > one costing half as much, I'm sure there will be takers - same way > > there were for Micromax and Karbon and Lava and all such brands. > > Buying cheap unbranded products out of economic compulsions cannot be > used as a justification for unbranded products. Hotel food is so > expensive nowadays that people with smaller pockets prefer the roadside > stalls even though they are un-hygenic and use unsold unwanted cheap > veggies as raw material and discarded edible oil for frying. However > this does not make the roadside stall food good for consumption.
you havent seen the inside of an udipi joint then. While in Mumbai and metros, your observations on food would be partly true, they are almost the opposite in the small towns. And you cant extrapolate that to branded electronic goods. The same set of job work manufacturers make the branded and unbranded stuff, albeit with a little better QC. A visit to China is a real eyeopener to the ride that branded guys are taking the public. > > A problem with electronic goods in India is that in the official route, > the taxes and duties are quite high. TVs of top brands are available at > much lesser rates in China than in India. Warranty support is also > important when a person invests a lot of money in these products. A > brand makes the company more responsible towards its customers. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
