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> I'm disappointed at the $500/person price tag. Totally. That price seems to be based on a weird kind of "medical products should/can be expensive"-thinking.
by tripzilch 13y ago
> I'm disappointed at the $500/person price tag.
Totally. That price seems to be based on a weird kind of "medical products should/can be expensive"-thinking. Also consider they priced the product at an equal amount of dollars or euros. Makes me think it's priced more towards what people might be willing to pay (and betting quite high) than as a function of its cost.
- digitalengineer 13y agoYou are correct. medical products should be expensive. If they're not they won't sell. The thought is something like this: "High price equals high quality". Family of mine found out when they engineered a machine to transform biohazard medical waste to standard 'grey' waste. Standard waste is 100 times less expensive to dispose care of, but they're having a really hard time selling the machine. (They own the patents and everything).
- nnnnni 13y agoThat's the exact reason why a bunch of Apple stuff is more expensive that it should be and/or not free. People tend to perceive free stuff as cheap/bad and expensive stuff as high quality/good. Being in the FOSS world, I can only shake my head at that...
- digitalengineer 13y agoWhen people have difficulty to compare products they will use the price of the product and comparable products as a guide. If people start hassling you about prices of your goods/services, it means you have not done a good job differentiating your products. E.g. your message sucks (or perhaps your product suck).