Posted by keybplayer:

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Actually Yamaha and Roland are very sneaky. They are trying every angle they can to extract the most amount of money out of you and me the customer. From a business perspective it's actually a smart move (in theory) but ultimately you and I are the ones that lose out in the end by paying higher prices and not having the ability to demo them firsthand before purchasing.
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Well said! Regardless of how much you support either company--at the end of the day, they're a business...... It's all about profits, and creative advertising. Also keep in mind that being a business they have unavoidable obligations to their "shareholders". Sure we're the customers and they make a good penny off us us, but where would they be without their shareholders. They have a legal obligation to provide for them.

Are they going to try and get every penny they can? Hell yeah, that's classic Capitolist Mentality Make more, make them cheaper--keep the money saved in costs for making them cheaper (not passing those savings on to the consumer), give them only portions of what they want--because you have to leave room for the next upgrade, otherwise by giving them what they want--who will upgrade.

Not going to knock the T2 but take into consideration what "creative advertising" Yammie used. What was one of their major focal points..? The new Super Articulation voices. There were quite a few who dumped the T1 for the T2. Did their T1's suddenly not function properly because it lacked SA voices, and were their audiences screaming "Where are the SA voices". Were they booking less gigs because they owned a T1?

It's all creative ads to keep us the consumer buying and upgrading. As long as we keep shelling out over $3,000 for a high end arranger, Yammie and others will continue charging those prices because people pay them. We can control the cost as a consumer if we choose, but people fall into the "hype' and the "I gotta have that new lemon fresh model" they just keep shelling it out. Maybe if for just ONE year we all kept our current keyboards and didn't upgrade when the new models came out we could have more control over cost

It's all b'out the "Benjamins" Baby!

Squeak



[This message has been edited by squeak_D (edited 07-27-2006).]