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原帖由 wohenzhuce 于 2007-9-12 02:39 发表
pal, interesting point...
Like you said, you get what you've paid for, but it's not compareable. If i bought a Chery QQ, suerly i wouldn't spend another 10 or 20 thousand to do some upg ...
I am really sorry, I can't quite follow you. But since we are talking about how American "think" or "act", you have to look at the issue from another perspective. On the car issue, there are ten of thousands, if not millions of people in the USA are spending insane amount of money to upgrade/modify crappy cars. On the street of Los Angeles, you see 90s Honda Civic, 70s VW Bugs, 60s Ford Mustang that cost thousands of dollar to modify. People do it simply they have money to burn and Its a spending culture. Personally, I've spent no less than $200,000 USD in fixing up my various bikes. You see the Ducati under my ID? The gold Ohlins FG-470 front forks alone cost me $10,000. The bike alone is only 18,000. When this bike was done, it totaled at around $50,000. And I have no less than 7 other similar bikes like that.
Well, back to the controller. There are mainly two types of modeler that I know of. First type is beginner who doesn't know jack about anything. So they buy Walkera because of its amazing low price and spectacular looking specs on paper. And when they crash the model, they couldn't tell whose at fault. Second type is veteran who know the best brands are Sanwa, JR, and Futaba, and everything else are junks. But since Walkera is new and cheap, they will try it and give it a shot. So if it turns out to be decent, then its a bargain. If it turns out to be crappy, it just reinforce their original assumption.
And to your "we purchase a 2000 RMB product with only 200RMB quality" assumption, it wouldn't apply to American, because for them, its "we purchase a 200 USD product with a 200 USD quality". They won't feel like they got rip off. They will just think they should be smarter and shouldn't be lured in the first place. And like what I said in my previous post, Walkera product are viewed as cheap, cheap, and very cheap diposable type merchandise.
And to the warranty thingy you've mentioned, I can speak from experience, because I used to distribute various types of product in the US for over 15 years. Only a small percentage of people return the product to the seller. If 100 people buy a item, maybe only 5-10 people will return it. So if there are 30% profit margain on a given product and 10% of the people return it. The distributor will have a net profit of 20%. In addtion, you are right that American consumers get more protection than Chinese, however, that comes with a hefty price tag. Things in US cost more, because all those warranty service, free repair, and 30 or 90 days no quesiton asked exchange policy cost are already added to the product.
Service are never free, you don't get much service in China because consumers didn't pay for them. Best example to illustrate this is the dining experience differences between US and China. In the US, dining experiences are awesome, waiters and host treat customers with respect and pamper you all the way, they will ask you every 5 mins to see what you need. But you have to tip them for no less than 20% of your bill.
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发表于 2007-9-12 22:13
