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Originally Posted by bojan
Adam,
The quality of an item is not determined by which one would have been picked up if price is the same..
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Thats right. As consumers, all we have to rely on are reviews of the product, and our own gut feeling when we pick it up to look at it and feel it. My point was that if you were in a store, and there were two timers sitting side by side, one genuine canon and the other a generic brand, for identical prices, I think that most would go for the canon one.
When you are building a brand like Canon, part of that image is the actual quality of your products, which some of your customers will know by prior experience but probably the biggest part of the brand is its perceived quality, and that warm fuzzy feeling you get when you buy the genuine article. People pay a lot for warm fuzzies.
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Originally Posted by bojan
It can be determined very accurately by observing the failure rate over the prolonged period of time in use, under the controlled conditions.. and this information is what we do not have here, for neither of those two product we are discussing in this thread.
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Now, if we don't have access to this information (which as consumers we clearly don't) then how can you be so sure that the Canon one isn't worth its price
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Without that information it just boils down to peoples individual judgement on quality and their tolerance for the price which is an argument nobody is going to win.
Adam