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"Trevor Wilson" <trevor@_SPAMBLOCK_rageaudio.com.au> wrote in message 
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> **That is a good thing and a bad thing. Even though they are sourced from 
> Malaysia, they are excellent shoes. Unfortunately, the pricing model is 
> still operating as if they were manufactured in Denmark.

I fully support your choice in not buying those shoes, but hopefully you 
realize that Ecco has a duty to their owners to try to make as much money as 
possible, right?  I'm pretty sure that in most companies you'd be kicked off 
the board of directors pretty fast if you suggested that you could save on 
manufacturing costs while maintaining the same quality (always an "iffy" 
question, but let's assume that is the case for the moment) by going 
off-shores, and... hey... why don't we drop the prices as well, to pass the 
savings on to the consumer, even though our marketing studies indicate our 
current prices are considered acceptable by consumers?

Presumably in the Ecco case competition will eventually drive the prices down 
or what you're really seeing is a move to not have to *increase* prices due to 
inflation and other rising costs.

> Perhaps they should take a leaf from B&O's book:
> http://www.cnet.com.au/mobilephones/phones/0,239025953,339285481,00.htm
> A mobile 'phone for 2 GRAND!

Yeah, B&O has always been one of those "high style" brands.  Not a demographic 
I'd want to compete in -- I'd fail miserably.

---Joel