I bought the Theater at FAO Schwarz in New York. The box was too big to bring back on the plane so I left it in the hotel and put all the baggies in my carry-on.
I just stormed a party in the middle of the night, with two friends. We knew nobody, nobody knew us. We just walked in. Everyone was like twenty years younger, too.
@Cerberus because here in Good Old Europe, everyone already is into LEGO and knows its value. The US still have to be convinced. That's why they get all the crazy promos, too. Like that X-wing in the Times Square.
And the market might be more competitive for toys in general. as in, the retailers just don't feel that the toys would sell at all at canadian prices. But canadians are polite enough that we submit to being gouged.
@Cerberus yes, but your other toys in europe are also higher priced.
Apple sells far fewer Iphones per GDP per capita in Europe than in the US, and they're still a lot cheaper there. If our market is so competitive, then why not make them cheaper?
Let's say you have a market with relatively few sellers. prices might stabilize at a certain point. but if you have a market with more sellers, or sellers that push for lower margins, etc, they can drive prices down. it depends on the sellers.
No, the market is more competitive, so in order to do well they price it lower. anyway you can't compare the phone markets. the predominant business models are different.
@Cerberus they do it on a per-country basis. they price it compared to how the other phones are priced. the iphone is one of the most expensive phones on the market here. it should correspondingly be so there too.
also phones are different than, say, toys. lots of local laws and restrictions and blah blah blah. actual costs of products might differ quite a bit on a country-by-country basis.
@Cerberus samsung phones are usually subsidized here. so it doesn't matter...
@Cerberus I'll see about that. One Breaking Bad episode is like 45 minutes. That should be enough to get me down to acceptable levels. It's not like tomorrow is a business day or anything. I just have to be up by 18:00 o'clock.
@Cerberus yes but you are claiming that there is some weird pricing happening. there isn't here: the high-end phones are expensive. they are correspondingly expensive over there.
@Cerberus Yes, it's a big difference. In fact it's comparable to the other price differences I see whenever I compare US prices for stuff to Canadian prices for stuff.
When you drink a whole bottle of vodka once, fuck that. When you drink the equivalent of a bottle of vodka on five occasions, you will start noticing a pattern. When you drink the equivalent of a bottle of vodka five times a year, every year, you just know your shit. Simple as pie.
As for why other phones are more expensive in the US, that's probably because the market for unsub phones is so fucked. I bet the carriers insist on high usub prices in order to make the subsidies seem better. Whereas apple plays by their own rules.
Consider lego prices. The dollar is at par, but the same set costs $149 USD or $199 CAD.
Okay, not all phones are more expensive there: the Galaxy S4 is more expensive here, but the difference is a lot less than for the Iphone. And other Samsung phones are often cheaper here.
@Cerberus sure, it could be that. but wouldn't that also be the case for Europe? you're used to a phone being whatever price it is, so the fact that that makes it 30% more than the US price is irrelevant.
@Cerberus incidentally, I found Manhattan prices were not that good. almost everything was more expensive than I expected. Even starbucks coffee cost more there than in Canada.
anyway it was almost everywhere we went, we saw stuff that was available in canada, but was no cheaper in NY. Whereas I've been to other places in the US and the stuff IS cheaper. I think it's just Manhattan: high prices.
@Cerberus well... maybe. for the stuff I usually buy: phones, and lego, the prices don't vary much online unless there is some kind of sale. But again, the sales don't reach canada.
@Cerberus we didn't do a franchise-by-franchise breakdown of all the stuff we saw. But the NY Rockafeller center lego shop had prices higher than lego MSRP. I've never heard of that before. A lego shop selling stuff higher than lego's own MSRP?
The Toys R Us in Times Square also had prices higher than MSRP.
Other things, like clothes, were no cheaper than canadian stores. Or DVDs, or other electronics. I didn't get the idea that there were any deals to be had. But I've been elsewhere and seen stuff way cheaper.
> Lobbyists are the glue that makes this Country run so smoothly. They ensure that Capitalism works by providing homes for Congress Critters when they are no longer electable, and a new batch of candidates already versed in how America works. If you're against lobbyists, you're against Capitalism. You don't hate Capitalism (and by extension America)...do you?
@Walkerneo I think you would normally do something like this:
> Here are my reasons. First, you were mean to me. Secondly, you stole my bike. Thirdly, you are an idiot. ... Lastly, you are ugly. For those reasons, I cannot collaborate with you any more.
@Walkerneo You could also just not mark the reasons at all. You were mean to me. You pushed me. Your sister dislikes me. You are an idiot. So I don't want to see you any more.
Although I think it's fine to use "First" etc. in an informal e-mail if they make it easier to parse...
Alternatively, you could make a list: 1. Tuesday is not a good day for me. 2. You can very well do it alone. 3. Mary told me she didn't expect me to be there So why don't you just go to the meeting alone?
:) well, the first thing you suggested works for terse sentences, but when the reasons are long and can span multiple sentences, the separation isn't clear
Do you think Computer science course nowadays produce more coders instead of programmers?
In my CS course, majority of subjects are about website development or smart phone application development. Those subjects were almost like revision for me because I already have learned all those topics in my leisure time
I haven't taken any courses yet (just finished HS), but in my experience, I'd say the reverse
the college grads I've worked with seem to have had more experience taking classes which didn't teach them the things directly relevant to the work we were doing, even though they seemed to have expected that to be the case
That is, they were expecting courses in web development, programming, etc. and instead were treated with courses dealing with more abstract concepts and didn't have much interest in taking them
Well, just real-world experience programming. Looking for bugs, structuring code, setting up development environments, working with libraries. I'm sure their courses were more geared towards teaching the concepts and abstract ideas behind programming
If you're just starting out, I'd say what you're experiencing is probably the colleges' attempts to "hook" students in by offering the courses that get them excited about computer science. I guess smart phone and web development are two major reasons people are currently interested in computer science
I think the reason why colleges offer so many web dev and smart phone application subjects is they have higher chance of getting them a job (30 k / year)
As a result, colleges can maintain their reputation of
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@JohanLarsson Oh.. yeah..why would they care? Sometimes they give youtube video statements, but that's the politician's staff setting that up. Politicians talk to each other bhind the scenes, they don't want to discuss things in public.
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