And in the other direction you could argue that the expensive cards that
professionals and enthusiasts buy will probably get a lot more use than
the cheap cards bought by the p&s brigade.
So you're back to square one!
John
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 21:14:41 +0100, John Celio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Could it not be that you see more cheapo cards because far more cheap
cards are sold than expensive cards?
Unless you know the sales ratios, you can't form any conclusions at all
from the number of cards coming through your workshop.
You are correct, and I did mean to address that in my original post.
Granted, the cheapass cards are bought in much higher quantities than
the higher-end cards, but the shop I work at sees a wide range of
customers, from grandparents who don't know diddly about digital
watches, let alone cameras, to professional wedding photographers and
photojournalists. We also sell a LOT of tier 1 cards (Lexar
Professional primarily, but our Promaster-branded cards are tier 1 cards
from Delkin, from what I've been told). Matter of fact, the majority of
cards we sell are tier 1, which is why a lot of entry-level consumers
tend to balk at their prices compared to what they can get at Costco.
Relatively speaking, it is pretty rare when a photographer comes in with
a bad pro card, and our Promaster cards generally only come back with
problems when the user failed to format it before using it.
So anyway, yeah, I wish I had numbers to back up what I wrote, but
that's not really possible for me. Maybe I should start keeping notes
on what sorts of cards I get.
I just had a thought: would it be safe to assume that people who buy a
cheapass card would be more likely to just throw it away when it becomes
defective than people who buy more expensive cards? Assuming most
people don't know about data recovery services, I would think consumers
who buy a cheap card would be more inclined to just replace it simply
because they didn't have a large investment in it. This is, of course,
just conjecture.
John Celio
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