[Resolved]  Sony — Tricks of fooling customers without their knowledge

Year 2003 -
Indian economy on the rise - Sony Global is phasing out Obsolete Designs example Model CCD-TRV318 Hi-8 Analog Camcorder (Enclosed picture) into more modern stylish products.

The oversmart Management decides to ship the garbage to India. and decides to Pump in heavy advertising campaigns to smitten the consumers. But wait Bigbosses at sony in an effort to keep the premium image keeps the price at Starting from INR30000.

With neofinancial surplus India fellas immediately fall for the bait- within no time the global garbage is eaten up by vegetarian Indians. And bang - sony launches the new series, instantly making the just sold one, archaic.

Year 2007 -
Sony India Launches DSC 'W' series - technologically superior cams - from their outlets. One particular model DSCW90 - priced at INR 20000 available at Sony world. (Without Cover or memory card). Now the problem is that the same camera is available at other outlets like Indiatimes @ INR 13000 - See the trick of the trade - You blowup your prices keeping a premium image at your showrooms and keep supplying to the parellel market. So that the sales keep happening either ways. The product sold at Showroom will get benefitted with free service for a couple of years and the same products from other channels dont. ( of course the bills of sony services are the highest equivalent categories.
Ultimately their products have to go bust and you end up paying either ways.

Sony feels Indian Consumer gets attracted to brand name - take advantage feed him all the crap under the brand but at a premium.

An irritated consumer [protected]@yahoo.com