I stopped paying attention to Paul Harvey when he was pitching Amway.
--Lou K2LKK

At 10:13 AM 5/1/2005 -0600, you wrote:
>the price has to do with the name, reputation and the quality.
>In the electronics market you see this game played all the time, people buy
>a product because of the name and not necesarily the fact that the product
>is better in anyway then anything else.  DVD players for instance, you can
>buy a pioneer DVD player for about $100, and then next to it on the shelf at
>the store is one for $39.95.  They both exhibit the same general features,
>have the same specs but one is a name you've never heard of and there is the
>pioneer.  It is priced that way because if people see a higher price, they
>automatically expect it to be a higher quality product, have better worantee
>and last longer, which in almost all cases is mearly a perception.
>Bose is a name, and has a reputation as a high end audio company so when
>they charge 300 bucks for a set of head phones which you can buy at a
>comparable price of $100 or less for a different name brand, that is because
>the consumer has allot of expectations around the product and its quality.
>73
>Colin, V A6BKX
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Walt Smith" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 7:17 AM
>Subject: Re: off topic
>
>
> > And they're obscenely overpriced. You could buy a decent component system
> > with vastly more flexibility for less money. Remember that these are the
> > same people who rip you off to the tune of $300 for a pair of
> > noise-canceling headphones that aren't worth more than about $100. All
>that
> > extra money just goes to pay for all that advertising.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 6:24 PM
> > Subject: Re: off topic
> >
> >
> > I figured that there had to be a catch.  Has anyone used the Braille
> > remote?  I'm sure that these are nice radios, but between Paul Harvey and
> > Rush from what I've heard making a fool out of his listeners by
> > demonstrating a call to Bose that has mainly been what has turned me off.
> > These are just radio/CD players and no tape players or anything like that?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, Harvey Heagy wrote:
> >
> > > Personally, I find that the sound of the Bose products is too basey in
> > > nature, and there is no tone adjustment control of any kind.  They sound
> > > good, but they aren't what Paul Harvey cracks them up to be, and I
>highly
> > > question their worth considering the price Bose asks for them.
> > > Harvey
> > >
> >

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