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anonEmouse

@comcast.net

reply to Devistater
Re: Total BS!

Here's a concrete example that took me just a few seconds to find, if you click on the digital camera category. At the top you'll see an olympus SP-320 camera. That site claims the MSRP is $400. But if you google for olympus SP-320 MSRP, you'll see a number of sites such as this one:
»www.dcresource.com/reviews/camer···?cam=814
That show the MSRP is actually $300.
In fact here's a preview of the camera before it was released which shows the same MSRP of $300 (just in case you want to claim that its been lowered over time since the camera's release)
»www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/S···320A.HTM


$300 is NOT the MSRP price for the Olympus SP-320. It is the "Estimated Street Price" (ESP, sometimes alternately known as ERP for Estimated Retail Price):

»www.imaging-resource.com/NEWS/11···769.html

Products very seldom sell for their MSRP prices. MSRP is simply a price far in excess of the real retail price, allowing retailers to claim they're selling at a "30% discount" (or whatever) rather than admitting they're selling at the exact same price everybody else is.

Another common one is MAP, or Minimum Advertised Price, where authorised dealers are barred from publishing a price below a certain figure in their advertisements or promotional materials, and usually they're also barred from revealing the price on a website before capture of a shopper's identity / adding the item to a shopping cart / whatever. This one exists solely to prop up prices from retailers who are overcharging for a product by preventing the competition from advertising their lower price.


mr3xcellent

@swbell.net

You guys need to compare apples to apples... The profit in a dig. camera is nothing like a game system. I worked at Circuit City for three years. Their cost on the original XBOX1 was $304... they literally lost money on every one of them they sold. (Keep in mind they included the cost of shipping the item to the store in their cost)

It's the games and accessories that have a margin in them, and that's where you'll find difference in prices. It's annoying watching you guys argue over the profit in the console when there really isn't any.
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