eBay's listing fees mean you pay more to list an item with a higher starting price. Simply put, it costs the seller more to have $100 auctions than $1 auctions. Same thing with reserve auctions, the seller pays for the privilege.
In a very real sense, eBay is encouraging shill bidders with their listing fees. They'd be gone overnight if listing fees were the same irrespective of the auction start value. After all, eBay is still getting their ending value fees.
Most of the cameras are all relatively high end stuff:
Certainly DSLR's are the high end when compared to point and shoots, but the top 3 positions on the list are the makers' low end models. You can buy 8 D50's for 1 D2X, or 11 DRebels for one 1D Mark II.
Well, tell us how many people truly had a problem, then.
That's right, you can't. The google searches and Apple forums are anecdotal, at best.
If you want to use the same "standard", in my example, how many more of those toasters had unreported problems?
We are talking about orders of magnitude difference in quality. Can you not accept my comparison for what it is - interesting - and accept that perhaps this battery recall is a tiny bit overblown?
Also, hard to see a downside for Apple in this. Sony's going to be eating most of the cost, and as we see, taking all the blame.
Not being a Sony apologist here, but really, the batteries are junk?
The Apple recall involved 2 minor injuries in 9 complaints out of 1.8 million batteries. Anyone care to shine a light on any other industry and look for a product this reliable? Toasters, anyone? According to the US Consumer Product Safety website, one toaster model alone resulted in 1066 fires in a product that sold 234,000 units. The batteries in the Apple recall have been in laptops since 2003 - three years with 2 injuries and 9 complaints.
Zonk, your editorial comment "We just recently reported on the decision by Nikon to go completely digital." is wrong.
Nikon continues to make their top of the line F6. It's hard to imagine a better 35mm SLR. They will also continue to market the entry level FM10 (made for them by Cosina).
Having said that, the writing's on the wall. I suspect they can only still make the F6 since it shares much with their top of the line DSLR.
Might actually be a valid comment if you've bought and used MegaBloks. The quality is equal to Lego, the blocks stay together just fine. Plus they've got a great line of designs. Seems like the only kits Lego sells these days is Harry Potter and Star Wars.
The battery runs out after two hours, and to change it:
"You pull out eight bolts, put in two new batteries, tighten up the eight bolts, and continue on your route."
At 80 pounds how do you get it out of your car's trunk?
"It's easy," Smith chirps. "I grab one side and get a friend to lift the other."
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eBay's listing fees mean you pay more to list an item with a higher starting price. Simply put, it costs the seller more to have $100 auctions than $1 auctions. Same thing with reserve auctions, the seller pays for the privilege.
In a very real sense, eBay is encouraging shill bidders with their listing fees. They'd be gone overnight if listing fees were the same irrespective of the auction start value. After all, eBay is still getting their ending value fees.
Apple's stock is up since the recall, Sony's is down. The market has attributed blame.
Well, tell us how many people truly had a problem, then.
That's right, you can't. The google searches and Apple forums are anecdotal, at best.
If you want to use the same "standard", in my example, how many more of those toasters had unreported problems?
We are talking about orders of magnitude difference in quality. Can you not accept my comparison for what it is - interesting - and accept that perhaps this battery recall is a tiny bit overblown?
Also, hard to see a downside for Apple in this. Sony's going to be eating most of the cost, and as we see, taking all the blame.
Not being a Sony apologist here, but really, the batteries are junk?
The Apple recall involved 2 minor injuries in 9 complaints out of 1.8 million batteries. Anyone care to shine a light on any other industry and look for a product this reliable? Toasters, anyone? According to the US Consumer Product Safety website, one toaster model alone resulted in 1066 fires in a product that sold 234,000 units. The batteries in the Apple recall have been in laptops since 2003 - three years with 2 injuries and 9 complaints.
I have difficulty taking someone seriously who can't figure out where the battery is on a laptop.
Zonk, your editorial comment "We just recently reported on the decision by Nikon to go completely digital." is wrong.
Nikon continues to make their top of the line F6. It's hard to imagine a better 35mm SLR. They will also continue to market the entry level FM10 (made for them by Cosina).
Having said that, the writing's on the wall. I suspect they can only still make the F6 since it shares much with their top of the line DSLR.
Might actually be a valid comment if you've bought and used MegaBloks. The quality is equal to Lego, the blocks stay together just fine. Plus they've got a great line of designs. Seems like the only kits Lego sells these days is Harry Potter and Star Wars.
At 80 pounds how do you get it out of your car's trunk? "It's easy," Smith chirps. "I grab one side and get a friend to lift the other."
Tell those engineers to put away the happy pills.