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#290210 - 08/03/10 12:54 PM
Re: Audya 4 and Audya 5 on the water to us
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Registered: 11/24/99
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Loc: Milford, CT, USA
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#290211 - 08/05/10 03:37 PM
Re: Audya 4 and Audya 5 on the water to us
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Registered: 08/03/10
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Until consumers start fighting back against these exorbitantly over priced high-end arrangers and/or arranger modules Yammie and Ketron and the others will keep licking their chops and laughing all the way to the bank at our expense. Since I am a conscientious consumer advocate I feel strongly compelled to voice my concerns with others regarding these huge price discrepancies (rip-offs) and by doing so to hopefully see progress with manufacturers in lowering their prices in line to their products true value and worth instead of price gouging the world's populations in the name of greed. -------------------------------------------- Mike You are a long way off base here, last quarter the music division of Yamaha made net operating income of under 2% on sales - and this was an improvement on the previous year. And this was before corporate expenses, which plunged Yamaha into huge losses. The number of $2000 per unit profit you mention is probably way overstated, and in any case would be gross margin, not profit. Most companies selling this kind of technology need gross margins in the range of 30-50% before they can show decent net operating income, because gross margins will not include many other overhead costs, like legal, accounting, admin, development, marketing interest expense etc etc. In a good comapny gross margins of 30-50% might net 10%, and that assumes you hit your projected volumes to absord overheads. Even if they did sell 500 units, that would probably not be in a single year, so nobody in a company like Ketron is likely to be getting rich at the consumers expense. In fact, with strong competitors all losing montey, there will be a big squeeze on margins in this kind of market, and fir companies like Ketron its probably a constant struggle for survival. Ask yourself, would you run to buy Ketron stock because they were making so much money?MikF
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