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When to Buy Technology Goods?

Posted by Cliff on from the finding-the-sweet-spot-in-the-product-cycle dept.

inblosam asks: "I am about to make 'the switch', but the thought came to me that there may be a strategic time of year to purchase technology goods. Of course once you buy something it is nearly outdated already, but there must be some marketing cycle for lowering prices and releasing new toys. Anyone seen any patterns that may help? I do have one hypothesis: Companies push their products that have been on the market for 10-11 months during the holiday season (December), then afterwards drop the prices some and bump up the product with a new feature or size, etc. I believe this was the case for the iPod ($500 down to $300 ?), and even the Handspring Visor Edge was $300 when I bought it (November?) and then $169 three months later."

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  1. Re:Anywhere but BestBuy by cornjchob · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    First of all, quiz me. Second of all, most people reading this probably aren't that familiar with a lot of techincal things, so of course that should come into play. Why would someone ask if they knew?

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  2. Oops, read 'Where' instead of 'When' by cornjchob · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ergo the offtopic of my post. oh well, thats what you get when you rush because you might have a fp. and when? trashday. duh.

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  3. Re:3rd reply beneath your current threshold by moss1956 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What is wrong with you? It seemed like an interesting question and all you can do is post flame bait.

  4. Re:18 month product cycle by ModernGeek · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    wow, there were like 6 posts, including this, then next thing you know the page is full.

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  5. If Mac was like heaven I would never buy it by fluor2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I hate that commercial. "The switch to Mac". It's like leaving our world and find heaven, where everything "works" and doesn't crash.

    Well, all I say if Mac is this "heaven", I would never buy it. I take parallells to real life, where people would loose interest in their life if everything was perfect.

    I fear this will be the product of Mac users. Finding a PC that is this "friend" that Mac describe, is like finding the very end to resistance. And as we all know, no resistanse, no progress. I've allready started feeling this Windows XP Pro not crashing, giving me a strange feeling of not being in existence, never actually feeling the power of "look, it's crashes! I know why. I, the physical self, do not crash. I am superior to the computer!"

    The very end must be Windows XP on a Mac. Too much of what is not. Too little of the resistance that we all should feel. Look. I typed this with no feeling. Perfect. It works. Simply the best. The missing link. Your own center. Go where you wanna go. It's built for the internet. It's beautiful.

    I stand on my ground.

  6. Re:What kind of shit is this? by ModernGeek · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think the release of trillian needs to be posted too, just because it isn't bad news about windows doesn't mean it isn't good news.

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  7. Re:MacTroll by Russellkhan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Shouldn't that be iTroll?
    Russ

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