Re: [Harp-L] Re: Cryogenics

[David Payne <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Good question, I wholeheartedly agree with you. It does however  
>automatically raise the next question, which is what would all the  
>harmonica players who routinely complain about price increases say  
>when manufacturers were obliged to charge their customers for these  
>incremental improvements? They surely would not come for free and a  
>normal retail price calculation works out at around 3$ for every 1$  
>of manufacturing costs in the factory. Whatcha reckon folks?

>Steve

>Steve Baker


There's a lot of people who pay $90 for an 1847 ...the steel reeds are a bonus, but, in my mind, it is the little incremental differences not the steel, that make it what it is. I hear a whole lot more of "I can't afford it right now, we'll see about later" than "That's too much." 
If you improve it, people don't mind it as much, they don't percieve it as paying more for the same thing, because it is something different. The 1847 is something of a manifestation of what Joe was talking about and I don't think we've seen the last of improvements to it.   
Dave
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