[pure-silver] Re: Hamster was (Glass versus Plastic containers)
- From: DarkroomMagic <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: PureSilverNew <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 22:37:34 +0200
Philippe
With these numbers, there is no danger. But is it really just 1% of the
consumers getting into panic? And, are we really talking just 3 months worth
of product? I have seen products in stores far older than 3 months.
Regards
Ralph W. Lambrecht
http://www.darkroomagic.com
On 2005-10-29 18:54, "Philippe Gauthier" <pgauth@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> DarkroomMagic a écrit :
>
>> I agree with that. Buying supplies once or twice a year is not what I was
>> referring to. But buying run-out supplies to last you for the next 10 years
>> (and sometimes a few freezers to go with it), is an understandable but
>> unnecessary panic, which is hurting the industry, in my view.
>>
>>
>>
> I don't think it makes much of a difference, as long as the supplier
> doesn't try to make some "exit profit" by producing a special batch for
> those who want to hoard - and I don't think Agfa did that. In a normal
> situation, if the, say, last 100,000 units of something represent about
> 3 months worth of sales, it doesn't make a difference if 1000 buyers
> hoard 100 units each or if 100,000 buyers each buy one unit. In the
> second case, the supply will be exhausted in three months and the
> remaining producers won't get these 100,000 new customers before these
> three months. In the first case, 1000 people won't be customers before a
> long, long time, but 99,000 will be immediately, because they didn't
> stock and they need an alternative now.
>
> Philippe Gauthier
>
>
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