Phil Leigh wrote: > So, commodity pricing is the opposite of cartel/monopoly pricing?
No, you have orthogonal topics. Commodities are sold in bulk. Cartel/monopoly markets include crude oil, which is sold in bulk. Commodity are not branded and there are no (important) difference between them. In the 1980s, 750cc Japanese "standard" motorcycles were essentially commodities, everyone made them, they all ran about the same, they all looked essentially the same. There was no perceived difference, so there was no difference between a Yamaha, Honda, Suzuki or Kawasaki. This meant the competed on price alone, and that was bad for the dealers and manufacturers. So they went into wild styling, Honda converted theirs to a V4 motor, etc. Then you could claim that they were different. This thread, I say again, is pointless. The Wall-mount bracket is going to be low volume, its a specialty product. The actual cost has nothing to do with its price. If a zillion folks wanted it, then it would move out of the specialty market and you would expect the price to drop, either by economies of scale or competition. There is no mass market for accessories that one percent of a small market will buy. Get over it. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
