Xbox Kinect – Out of Stock or Just Another Ploy
Here we are repeatedly, another Christmas and one more deficiency of a novelty. This year it happens to be the Xbox Kinect. Not only is it limited but it’s completely sold out. You can’t get it in any place. Or can you?
If you absolutely have to have it you can almost certainly get it on ebay. The bad part of this arrangement is that you’re going to be paying between 50-100 dollars more than it’s recorded at. The nearer it gets to Christmas the uglier this will become. I further understand that you can get them on amazon but once again you are going to be paying much more than the list price.
If you’re anything like me than you choose to know how this is even credible. How can a big business such as Microsoft mess up a product launch so bad?
For the last month or so you couldn’t go anyplace without seeing something about the xbox kinect. It was on billboards, bus stops, radio, internet, celebrity, magazines, and even miniature men parachuting down from the vault of heaven with Xbox Kinect written on their foreheads. The amount of bankroll they put into marketing it has to be into the tens of millions.
Why would a company spend that much money and run out? Well I can give you a few reasons. Keep in mind that this is only my individual opinion though.
First defense would be that they haven’t run out at all. Like I said at the origin of this column, this happens every single year with the top rated doll. The notion in the rear this means of marketing is reliable. If they can forged a deficiency than the hype for their brand will abound. This hype will continue to amplify as long as they control the inventory. Unfortunately for us they do control the reserve of goods.
The down fall to this means is that it also drives prices up on auction sites. I kind of view these guys the same way I view ticket scalpers at the ballpark. Have you in any case met a ticket scalper at a ball park? They are a very economically challenged batch of individuals. They act as if you are getting a pound of the last crack on the wandering star. They also look like they should be on the last pound of blow on the globe.
The other justification, and this notion is a long shot, is that they truly underestimated the demand of this product. I can understand underestimating the demand for a brand. I mean, this is only the most cutting-edge gaming system in the planet. I don’t think many citizens will choose it, especially not right before Christmas.
So what can we, as the consumer, do about this? Nothing, we are pawns in a very complicated game that eventually comes down to capital. When you have three very big companies, trying to be the number one gaming merchant in the globe, you’re going to see some disreputable approach.
If you were to ask me, If I were the CEO of Microsoft, would I do anything in another way. I would have to say no. I wouldn’t vary a thing. It may be frustrating to the person who buys merchandise but at the same time we play into it all too well. As long as we go on with to do that, companies will resume to use this against us.
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