false, MSFT was listing it at $299 and I posted that in one of the threads (forget which) but it was marked sold out... HP "CANADA" is listing them for $999 which is lack of all common sense and reeks if desperation! As for listing things for whatever price... economics 101, people will never buy things at a ridiculous price, so I disagree with your statement :wink: supply N demand will drive up prices and then ONLY then can people start putting stuff at high prices because "they can" because there will be a demand for it... as of now, NO ONE is demanding these things because of many factors I'm not gonna get into again but everyone knows lol we all know that the X3 is not very popular, so them trying to sell at those insane prices is just.... "insane" :wink:
Well OK they marked it down once it was sold out, or maybe 2-3 people bought it at that reduced price. Either way my point was Microsoft was steadfast at keeping the price high for the majority of the time they had it listed. As for HP Canada, what can I say.
Sorry, there isn't always a correlation between high prices and high demand. Takes me only seconds to browse Internet Land finding products with little to no demand yet are selling at exorbitant prices. Lots of reasons for this such as those who bought these products at full retail then seeing minimal to no use, obviously they feel it has some worth whether we agree or not. If one considers it money already spent then they have nothing to lose pricing it high. It either sells or it does not. So yes "they can".
And don't fool yourself, there are people out there who WILL spend the bucks if they want it bad enough - those few that do does not make it a supply-n-demand situation. So never say NEVER as that's a cardinal rule :wink:
Not disagreeing with you that some of these prices defy reasoning yet not much we can do is there. Our only option is to throw them a bone in hopes they are hungry enough to take it. :winktongue: