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When things don’t sell…

… cut the prices!

Directly from a Circuit City email targeting the Memorial Day in the USA:

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Microsoft Zune $60 cheaper. Yay. Who cares?


8 Responses to “When things don’t sell…”

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  1. José Marques
    Published at May 29th, 2007 at 5:29 pm

    If you had an idea of what you are talking about you would know that in memorial day *all* the prices drop a lot…

  2. mlopes
    Published at May 29th, 2007 at 6:30 pm

    Jose Marques, please enlighten me. Why didn’t the iPod’s price drop then? It must be a terrible coincidence that they selected Zune to cut prices :-(

  3. José Marques
    Published at May 29th, 2007 at 11:34 pm

    Perhaps because they can cut prizes without losing money. Have you ever seen any store selling Apple stuff cheaper then the actual Apple store prices?

    Is the world nothing but Apple vs Microsoft to you?

  4. mlopes
    Published at May 30th, 2007 at 6:13 am

    Have you seen Microsoft reports for the last year? They lost a couple of millions with Zune. So, I don’t see how come they can cut the prices and still make money.

    As for Apple, they don’t need to cut prices. Things sell regardless of the price.

    Finally, to me it’s not Apple vs Microsoft. It’s The World vs Microsoft. I don’t like Microsoft and I don’t hide that. Actually, everyone knowing a piece of Microsoft’s history can’t abstain from disliking (and I’m being subtle) them.

  5. José Marques
    Published at May 30th, 2007 at 9:59 am

    I’m sure that any kind of gadget development has it’s costs, specially if you do a lot of marketing like they did. Considering that the Zune was launched near the end of the year I can’t see how they could recover the investment in just a few months.
    Sure Microsoft is evil bla bla bla, everyone knows that, but they make good hardware, that you should know.

  6. mlopes
    Published at May 30th, 2007 at 6:26 pm

    I concur that the hardware is not the worst thing. Keyboards and mouses and pretty decent, that’s true. As for the Zune, it’s only a 2nd grade copy of the iPod. It does not have its status nor its appeal, but this is just my personal and humble opinion, subjective as hell. Actually, as all personal opinions are.

  7. José Marques
    Published at May 31st, 2007 at 6:50 pm

    The conversation continues :P, it’s true the Zune is far from attractive when comparing it to the iPod, but in terms of software I have some doubts, the iPod has serious design interaction problems, supposedly the Zune is better in that field, I can’t say for sure because I’ve never touched one.

  8. mlopes
    Published at May 31st, 2007 at 7:08 pm

    What kind of interaction problems are you talking about? I have one iPod and never noticed any.