January 17, 2010
Can you say busted?
If Lexicon is your favorite brand then here's a shocker, the company figured if it isn't broke, then don't fix it and grabbed an Oppo BDP-83 Blu-ray player and encased it into a high end chassis and listed it for $3500 -- a $3000 case, wow? We know this type of thing goes on all the time in the world of electronics, but wow, this is just unbelievable. The folks at Audioholics didn't believe it either, so they stripped the two players down and did some bench testing to reveal that indeed both were identical -- other than the case that is.And this is why high end electronics are a scam. This happens way more often than you think. When I first started working in the manufacturing industry it was pointed out to me that there were only 3 factories making VCRs all the boards were the same it was just a change in name plates. Same with most TVs. If you know what you are doing you can actually look at the labels and tell which brands are manufactured by which companies at which factories.
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The same principle is true across the spectrum of products. I worked for a sweater warehouse. We got shipments of sweaters from Taiwan and then wholesaled them out. We'd take the same exact sweater and sew different labels on them. Some would go to discount stores and some would go to stores like Jordan Marsh (This was around 197
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Same exact sweater would retail for $9 at the discount store vs $30 at the department store.
Oh, and we didn't care about sizes. If an order called for a Small and we didn't have enough, we'd just take a Medium and put a Small label on it.
.Same exact sweater would retail for $9 at the discount store vs $30 at the department store.
Oh, and we didn't care about sizes. If an order called for a Small and we didn't have enough, we'd just take a Medium and put a Small label on it.
Posted by: Jaynie59 at January 18, 2010 09:59 AM (YjQWV)
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I still remember a Mad Magazine bit where a guy was telling a customer how great their gas was and that's why it was 10 cents more expensive than the cheap place down the street.
The next panel has the driver of the deliver/tanker truck saying, "Half this load is yours, the other half goes to the station down the street."
I used to learn lots of stuff in Mad Magazine, that's why I don't trust spies or worry.
The next panel has the driver of the deliver/tanker truck saying, "Half this load is yours, the other half goes to the station down the street."
I used to learn lots of stuff in Mad Magazine, that's why I don't trust spies or worry.
Posted by: Veeshir at January 18, 2010 03:46 PM (DH2fI)
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