Price Increases?????

[HPLLC]

Re: Price Increases?????

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Lowlight</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> So now the sniper spotter team was brought from 1980 up to speed with modern technology.</div></div>

Thanks to the $2500 chassis system and all that went with the upgrade.

Money well spend in my opinion. </div></div>

Until the upgrade, the Marines sniper systems were 25 years of technology ahead of the Army. It was getting pretty pathetic on the Army front.

The Marine Corps keeps sniper rifles in constant development, and that's a good thing.

 

[Greg Langelius *]

Re: Price Increases?????

Back before my economic situation went from the red to the black; I could resent how folks who could afford anything would cough up essentially any price because they had a major case of the gimmies. I was certain they were polluting the waters for the rest of us blokes to swim in.

After the change, I got my own case of the gimmies, and very nearly went hog wild in the process. Took me awhile and some sage advice from some close friends before I managed to get past the denial stage. I had become 'part of the problem' so quick it wouid make one's head spin. All of a sudden I understood that part of the process.

Facts are simple; a bargain is a bargain, regardless of your bank balance. So is a cash cow. Your bank balance should not guide your judgement; that needs to be based on precisely the same criteria as if you were looking at something it would take six to ten months to save up for, just like things used to be.

LL has it right, you need a lot of precision to compete at the top levels, and precision costs. How much precision can you afford? Period.

I would love to see something like a class system that graduates the cost, and allows competition at arbitrary cost levels. That way lies insanity. It can't be enforced. It may not even be able to be defined.

Prices are the direct derivative of the arms race. For as long as a set of rules will exist; as time flows, so does the race to ace the rules. The only potential way around this challenge is to formulate a new challenge; and there are no guarantees except the one that all too soon enough, prices and costs will be right back up there again.

Scotty/STP has cooked up the FV match concept. It is already reaching the point where folks, myself included, are building rifles specifically for the challenge. I am earmarking sums I would never have even considered as recently as a year ago.

The beat goes on..., yadda dadda d'oh...

Greg

 

[Lexington]

Re: Price Increases?????

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: JCH</div><div class="ubbcode-body">they wouldn't charge the price if people weren't buying them. </div></div>

Conversely, people are buying them and paying the price. Are people stupid? Are manufacturers gouging?

No.

Demand for these goods is highly elastic. What people here are recognizing is that the price is too high for <span style="text-decoration: underline">them</span>, and they have removed themselves from the market. So to say that prices would come down if people would stop buying, is really just a lamentation that the market has left a few people behind. Apparently for the manufacturers, enough business is being transacted at the "market clearing" price.

I don't mind being left behind by a number of silly-expensive things. I have some nice gear that works for me.