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Fifty years ago, stero system manufacturer "Tandberg" had managed to build a super-HiFi image in the USA. (Back home in Norway, that's what you'd find in everybody's home, it was a household brand). Tandberg did significant experimentation in the US market: In areas where they set the recommended retail price way up, and selling only through selected stores, they won a reputation as the connoisseur brand, really high class. In other areas, where they sold at "normal" prices, they still had a (well deserved) "good" reputation, but not much more. Tandberg was not a widely known brand in the US, so they had the opportunity to try out alternatives and compare the effects of various measures wiht few discovering it.
Today, it is standard practice in some sectors (sterophile stuff being one of them) setting extreme prices to give the impression that this someting super exclusive, super valuable - it must be! Why would it otherwise be that expensive?
Fifty years ago, Tandberg certainly was not alone in testing out such strategies, but they were early on the scene, and communication was so slow that they could test out alternatives. Today's crazy pricing strategies are based on the experience that Tandberg and others built up during the 1970s. The customers did not build up a similar sensitivity to (and rejection of) those strategies though - they still work!
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*cough*apple*cough*
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Sure, but without attacking your major premise, Tandberg did also provide products of high quality. In 1988 I bought a Tandberg TCA 3018A pre-amp to drive my pair of Mark Levenson power amps, and it still works to perfection today. I have, from time to time, substituted other top-end pre-amps, but have always come back to the Tandberg.
I suggest that their high price in the US (where, incidentally, I bought mine) was due to an evaluation of their competitive quality, and the import tariff levied at that time on audio components.
@Mark_Wallace - Do you mean you don't think Apple products will last for for 32 years? 
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Fashion era is rubbish! (7)
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chirona ?
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, people
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Nope.
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GARB - fashion
....AGE era
GARBAGE rubbish
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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You are up tomorrow! 
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Not GRUNGE then, hmmm... too few letters, better not post this.... ooops!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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@SJHaddon
You won yesterday, remember?
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Just noticed that in his answer he has said he doesnt want to set todays... i dont remember seeing that first time around so could have been an edit.
I dont have anything prepared so if you have one spare maybe you can set today?
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Done - it's not brilliant, but ...
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Yeh, I know. I did plead for exemption - on the grounds that....
I'm rubbish! Sorry 
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5teveH wrote: I'm rubbish!
Hey, we've all used that excuse, but it only works once. 
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I've been told that being rubbish is not an excuse.
So I don't participate, just in case.
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It is impossible you are worst than me at this... And even I did it a few times already...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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OK, if I ever get another one right, I'll give it a go. But I'm pretty sure it will go badly! 
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... It's topical[^] 
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M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The fact that "self-worth" is on that list at all tells me this was put together by someone who lacks the discipline to do actual work at home, and can't be trusted to do so.
He's revealed a lot more about himself than he probably ever intended.
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Sure. But to what end, I wouldn't know.
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These persons ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) 's would fall under the category of "Candidates for Justifiable Homicide".
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Rope, tree, patent troll. Some assembly required.
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