Has anyone else heard that the unit cost of a 3Ti is around $400u.s.? Paul.
Winsor Crosby wrote:
> >>Paul Van Tuyl wrote:
> >>>
> >>> One reason for the disparity is that OLYMPUS believes the 3Ti will become
> >>> a
> >>> collector classic like the original 3! They are keeping the price
> >artificially
> >>> high, accordingly. Paul.
> >>
> >> Well...that's just bizarre. Why on earth would they care
> >>(financially speaking) if their camera is valued as a collector's piece
> >>after the initial sale? Especially if they don't intend to actively
> >>support their OM line (as others have suggested is the case) the way
> >>Nikon has tended to support it's SLR line. But whatever. I'm not
> >>doubting you, just trying to fathom the logic.
> >>
> >>Cheers
> >>Ryan
> >
> >
> >Well, the OM-3 has become a collector's item, hasn't it? And so by
> >introducing
> >the OM-3Ti Olympus believes that they create another collector's camera.
> >The reason they care about that is that it then allows them to price it at a
> >collector's price -- and they rake in the profits. Once all the OM-3Tis are
> >sold, I agree that Olympus will care less about how it retains its value
> >as a collector's piece.
> >
>
> As others have mentioned on the list, I think that it probably more a
> matter of volume and manufacturing design. I am guessing that Olympus sells
> 10 OM4Tis for every OM3Ti. Even if Oly does a volume run and then
> warehouses them until sold, the manufacturing run on OM3Ti is going to be
> much, much smaller than that for an OM4T. Lost economy of scale. In the
> meantime, since the original basic design, everything else from cameras to
> cars has been redesigned to be robotically assembled with fewer and simpler
> to assemble parts. As a result a camera like the OM3Ti becomes much more
> costly to assemble than the usual wonderbrick.
>
> Winsor
>
> Winsor Crosby
> Long Beach, California
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