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I think you've hit the nail on the head on the demand/supply issue. I have two daughters, one likes pretty much everything my sons do, the other likes more tra
by mdip 11y ago
I think you've hit the nail on the head on the demand/supply issue.
I have two daughters, one likes pretty much everything my sons do, the other likes more traditional girly things (we don't encourage or discourage which toys the kids play with in the house, it just worked out that way). When I saw the two products, I thought, I wouldn't buy that scooter for my one daughter, she'd never use it. My two sons would both love it (thought not in pink). And if my girly-girl wanted a scooter, she would want it in pink if it were available.
It's an anecdote, but I'm around a lot of other parents with girls and boys and it doesn't strike me that they're going to produce the pink scooter in the kinds of quantities that they're going to with the boy-branded one which will likely affect the cost of production resulting in an expected difference in the cost of the product.
On the razors, there are subtle differences. The lady's Gillette product my wife used to use to shave is significantly different, designed to be held differently for shaving the variety of areas that women typically remove hair from. It was also a much larger product. The blades, themselves, were 1/3 larger, with an extra rubbery pad on the top and the bottom of the blade. They cost about 10% more than the men's version and from a basic visual inspection, that seemed like a fair price difference.