>Now as a customer I will choose vendor A or vendor B. That is absolutely
>my choice. If vendor B lives in a more efficient country and can make
>the
>product cheaper, and I am prepared to pay the extra freight, as a
>citizen
>of the world I will choose the vendor that suits me best.
>


OK. Don't try and infer anything from what I say here except what I actually
say (which is bad enough as it is :-) ).

AFAIK the main argument here WASN'T about someone making it cheaper
elsewhere - it was mainly about the same maker selling products at different
prices in different places.

SOME manufacturers put extensive effort into promoting their products in
ways which they consider are appropriate to cause it to sell in a given
market. Some provide substantial support to their resellers and training and
perhaps incentives to help the resellers to be competitive in a given
market. The same manufacturers may recognise that some other markets are
unable to afford or support or require the level of input as the high cost
markets. For instance, the USA may be a highly competitive and expensive
market to sell into and it may be that lowering price does NOT sell more
product. It may be that instead you have to pay major sporting stars big
bucks to say that they eat your razor blades, would never wear anything ever
again except your brand of shoes, feel so much more accepted by the world
when they wear your watch etc. it MAY be that you need to start youth sport
training programs or xxx etc.
Now you also want to sell to eg India. There you may find that price is THE
driving factor (maybe not). You may be able to set up a factory in India and
"leverage" their low labour costs to sell your product to them at a price
consistent with the local pricing structures.

Of course, other manufacturers just want to rip you off :-)

If Joe "I demand my rights" purchaser from the US of A can access Indian
produced product or even product made in the same factory as the for-USA
product but priced at the for-India price then the manufacturer will sell
little USA priced product and the poor sporting stars will lose their
free-meals. After a while the USA purchaser will also not have manufacturers
willing to provide the hoopla and extravaganza that they expect along with
their products. They may also not get the support from the well trained
suppliers, the after and before sales service etc.

Morally, if you are silly enough to use products from Reebok, Nike, Tag
Heuer, Cartier, Calvin K or a host of others then you should feel obliged to
support the excesses of capitalist marketing and allow people to market
differentially to maintain the great American dream etc. while still selling
at a "fair" price to the less privileged.

Bypassing these systems will hasten the end of society as we know it.
Y'all do it now, y' hear :-)



RM

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