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Originally Posted by cmo  |
cmo,
I am not an employee of Maco nor related to that company in any way.
I ask you to read all my posts (I have never posted outside apug) and show me and the rest any `marketing stories´ or marketing attempts posted by me!
Now it's your turn to support your alligations!
However, my historic interest gave me enough insight into the industry to ask you again to be fair to them.
Here and at other threads it has been repeatedly stated which efforts it takes to make a product with features foreseeable and repeatible in the hand of the user. We are living under circumstances where it is common to try to be paid for these efforts by the profit of that product.
Not at least via this community you should have learned that these expectations of rewarding not necessarily turn out to be true.
Yes, as a consumer I too ask myself, seeing a colour-negative film of one of the major manufacturers at the local food discounter for 90€cent while for a less common film I am asked a multiple, whether I want to pay that price.
Yes, I am annoyed by that habit within the industry (large and small) to offer products which seem to be identical under different names. For a part this is understandible due the structure of the industry where competitors want to veil their sources, for a part due to slight or even major differences. From a marketing perspective this may even turn out to be counterproductive.