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- From: lhermens@eecs.wsu.edu (Leonard Hermens)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Price of SIMM's... :-(
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.222351.23221@serval.net.wsu.edu>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 22:23:51 GMT
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- In article <gurman.720912673@umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov> Joseph B. Gurman,
- gurman@umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov writes:
- >walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Walk) writes:
- >
- >>mn940044@LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Mathew Nieberger) writes:
- >>>Quit crying to us!! Fair trade should be fair not subsidized!!!
- >>>All the tariff did was to force the foreign companies not to sell under
- >>>their cost to produce the SIMMs. THEY WERE DUMPING their products below
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >>>production cost to try and destroy any American competition.
- >
- > While it was hotly debated a couple of years ago (during the last
- >SIMM price spiral) that the Japanese DRAM maufacturers were dumping for
-
- [my hack edit here]
-
- >concerned, Micron is too small to be a factor in their price wars.
- >
- > (And has anybody here thought of the analogy with motorcycles:
- >Harley-Davidson was protected in '83 with a penal tariff on Japanese
- >[only] bikes over 700 cc, and is now thriving --- even after the tariff
- >is several years gone --- but mainly because
- >Americans split their motorcycle dollars between Japanese performance
- >or economy bikes, and the Milwaukee brand that still looks and costs
- >[proportionally] like it did 9 years ago, but is up to [or close to]
- >"rice-burning" quality.
-
- It also doesn't hurt that the Japanese now have a strong import affection
- for the Harleys and are buying them at generous prices.
-
- lah--
-