"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:49:11 GMT, "NOYB" wrote:


"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 19:50:49 GMT, "NOYB" wrote:


Sure they are. So to get the most bang for your buck, you sometimes
have
to
take advantage of a company's "dumping" practices and buy their
undervalued
outboard...like you did with the Suzuki's. They're terrific engines
and
would be priced closer to Merc and Yamaha if Suzuki wasn't trying to
gain
market share via dumping.


Explain to me again how (1) outboards are overpriced and (2) Suzuki is
"dumping" them for what they ought to sell for anyway.....

My brother bought a Suzuki 140 for 3 grand less than a comparable Yamaha.
Is it possible that the Suzuki was $1500 below reasonable market
value...and
the Yamaha was $1500 too expensive?

And *I'm* the "binary thinker"?


No, you just aren't thinking. Anybody that thinks $21,000 for a gear
case and a six cylinder engine makes sense needs help.


Anybody that doesn't understand the principal of economies of scale needs
help.

You can buy a whole car for what they want for just an engine. That
is overpriced.


Are you familiar with Economies of Scale?
If you add together the total number of outboard motors sold *WORLDWIDE*
each year by all of the manufacturers, you end up with a number near
800,000. Compare that to the number of automobiles sold worldwide in any
given year. Hell, BMW sells more than 800,000 cars all by themselves.

My dental software costs almost $20,000. Windows XP costs one-hundredth of
that. Why? Because Microsoft sells tens of millions of copies of their
software...and Eaglesoft (dental) sells only about 20,000 copies. However,
the manpower (ie--cost of development) that went into Windows is probably
1000 times (or 10,000 times) greater than the manpower that went into
Eaglesoft. By your logic, Eaglesoft should cost one-thousandth what Windows
XP costs.