iPhone;535490 Wrote: > I will say it again. The EU is still a Capitalist part of the world. One > thing drives all prices in all Capitalist areas and that is Supply and > Demand with Market driven pricing. The Market determines the price of > goods in a free market. If Logitech can get more for a Touch in one > place then in another, they are REQUIRED to. It is that simple. Supply > and Demand as well as the fiduciary responsibility of the company to > its share holders requires them to seek the highest price the market > will bear, since Logitech is a publicly traded company. Period.
I would say that Logitech has a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profits, not just to price units at the highest price that the markets will bear. So, the calculation of price in a particular market is neither straighforward or simple. If discriminatory pricing damages reputation and hurts the international distribution channels to the extent that sales volume suffers and potential profits are not maximized, they would have an obligation to reduce prices in those market segments. I am not sure if they are anywhere near that point, since consumer outrage at discriminatory pricing is muted by the fact that many who are patient can find ways around discriminatory pricing in artifically created market segments by purchasing the product from a US retailer at some point in the future. But, they and other manufacturers are not immune to these pressures, which will only grow as the US dollar continues its decline for the short term. -- dmg ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dmg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37076 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77371 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
