Post by: Arbok on October 10, 2006, 02:33:36 PM
Anyway, my inspiration for this topic came from a question on my Marketing exam (college level):
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Nintendo chose a ___________ approach to pricing the new Nintendo DS because they felt the market for this product is price sensitive, there are major economies of scale to be achieved, and both Sega and Microsoft would be introducing new game systems shortly?
Just can't keep Sega down...
Post by: IceCold on October 10, 2006, 02:52:56 PM
Post by: Ian Sane on October 10, 2006, 03:00:39 PM
My grade 3 teacher once asked me how I would feel if a Ninja Turtle came into class and shot me with a gun.
Post by: vudu on October 10, 2006, 03:14:32 PM
EDIT: Look on the bright side, Ian, at least you have national healthcare.
Post by: UncleBob on October 10, 2006, 03:21:19 PM
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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
My grade 3 teacher once asked me how I would feel if a Ninja Turtle came into class and shot me with a gun.
Wha?!? This one needs a backgroud story...
Post by: Arbok on October 10, 2006, 03:21:39 PM
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Originally posted by: vudu
I think the answer the professor is looking for is low cost, but I would argue for differentiation. However, that's more of a operations/marketing answer, so if this is economics, who knows? I hate economics.
Well this is a marketing class, but the correct answer was "Penetration".
Oh, and I'm still laughing at Ian's second example.
Post by: Smoke39 on October 10, 2006, 05:02:36 PM
Post by: blackfootsteps on October 11, 2006, 05:46:45 AM
Link to the case if you are really bored: Nintendo v Centronics
Post by: Ian Sane on October 11, 2006, 07:49:40 AM
My teacher just had a huge bias against anything that little boys found fun. Ninja Turtles were huge at the time and thus like videogames, comic books, and The Simpsons they were a common target of her's. Though like most irrational people she was completely ignorant of what the content she was so opposed to actually consisted of. So she frequently made outlandish arguements about the insane amount of violence found on the TMNT TV show. I defended the show since I knew she was full of sh!t and that comment was her rebuttal. I had a reputation in elementary school of correcting teachers when I knew they were spreading misinformation. In grade 2 I corrected a teacher that told us peanuts grew on trees and I even went to the library and PROVED I was right (I knew peanuts grew in the ground from an episode of Teddy Ruckspin).
Post by: vudu on October 11, 2006, 11:20:40 AM
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The service industry is also moving toward mass customization. For instance, not very many years ago most people had the same telephone service. Now, not only is the phone service full of options, from caller ID to voice mail, but contemporary phones are hardly phones. They may also be part camera, computer, Playstation (sic), and Web browser.
Post by: IceCold on October 11, 2006, 01:32:51 PM
QuoteI would kill to be in Ian's class
My teacher just had a huge bias against anything that little boys found fun. Ninja Turtles were huge at the time and thus like videogames, comic books, and The Simpsons they were a common target of her's. Though like most irrational people she was completely ignorant of what the content she was so opposed to actually consisted of. So she frequently made outlandish arguements about the insane amount of violence found on the TMNT TV show. I defended the show since I knew she was full of sh!t and that comment was her rebuttal. I had a reputation in elementary school of correcting teachers when I knew they were spreading misinformation. In grade 2 I corrected a teacher that told us peanuts grew on trees and I even went to the library and PROVED I was right (I knew peanuts grew in the ground from an episode of Teddy Ruckspin).
Post by: JonLeung on October 12, 2006, 09:46:29 AM
He just showed it to me like a day or two ago, and considering I rarely come to General Chat, I found the existence of this topic humourous.
