Thread: The WORST Firearm You Ever Owned

Originally Posted by Ultimitsu

I think Gadgetman my friend, we have fundamentally different view of how the market works. I believe in free market, I believe that while marketing has its place, ultimately the consumers know what they want. you appear to believe that whatever market share each product has is the result of better or worse marketing strategy and merit plays a small (or non-existent) part. that view, to me, is almost like a conspiracy theory, so we will just have to accept that we disagree.

Believing that marketing doesn't make a big difference to sales volumes seems pretty naive to me. Based on your own supply/demand reasoning, if the marketing didn't work then companies wouldn't be spending so much money on it.

To use the car analogy - most of the European manufacturers market themselves in NZ as 'premium' products, with prices inflated accordingly. In Europe most of their range are taxis and sales rep cars, its only the top models that are 'premium'. But its 'German quality!' and thats good right? Not necessarily reflected by real-world data, but the marketing departments keep pushing that line and enough people hear it often enough to maintain the idea in general public perception.

Marketing strategies work on a large enough number of people to make a big difference.