Tuba Prices REALLY Went Up!

Rick Denney · Post by **Rick Denney** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 3:43 pm

sloan wrote:
Rick Denney wrote:Ken, we are arguing for the sake of arguing, not for the sake of illuminating the subject at hand. Let's stop.
Ken "thinking the point would have been made more strongly if you had stopped there" Sloan

Do you disagree with those basic points? To borrow from the article Joe posted, is it indeed an unreasonable person who pays an unreasonable price, especially based on a self-delusional definition of "need"?

Do you disagree that a company is not obligated to its outside investors to charge the highest price the market (i.e., buyers) will bear?

If you think I was actually being mean by using the terms "hobbyist" and "boutique", then you are simply mistaken.

Rick "who thought it was the stuff that came after that that you disagreed with" Denney

sloan · Post by **sloan** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 3:52 pm

Rick Denney wrote:
sloan wrote:
Rick Denney wrote:Ken, we are arguing for the sake of arguing, not for the sake of illuminating the subject at hand. Let's stop.
Ken "thinking the point would have been made more strongly if you had stopped there" Sloan
Do you disagree with those basic points?

I stated my case. You asked for us to stop. I have stopped.

Donn · Post by **Donn** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 5:49 pm

Someone should put up a poll.

- Rick Denney won
- sloan won
- got me, they both seem to know what they're talking about
- if only we could talk politics, I could clear this up in a jiffy
- if only we could post pictures of food ...

smurphius · Post by **smurphius** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 6:08 pm

Saxophone? Geesh.

Donn · Post by **Donn** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 6:34 pm

smurphius wrote:Saxophone? Geesh.

And tuba. But wouldn't dream of buying a new tuba, so current retail prices don't affect me directly.

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:55 pm

Well, I'll be....

Time to go back and hit the books and update myself.

pierso20 · Post by **pierso20** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 2:56 pm

has it occurred to many of you, that maybe much of what was posted in here is "correct"?

There is no 1 simple or even complex answer to price issues and economics. There is such a WIDE range of possibilities and factors, that one CANNOT fully explain. So how about this....

Tuba's cost more now than before. Cost of living is up, prices are up...etc. This is the fact of it all. I feel that so much is posted in here as fact, when in essence, they are all PART of the big picture.

So, in conclusion, economics is a complicated issue...which is why it is such a hard class in college...

Mike Finn · Post by **Mike Finn** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 4:11 pm

pierso20 wrote:...

So, in conclusion, economics is a complicated issue...which is why it is such a hard class in college...

Yeah, and then your Accounting professor tells you the Econ prof has it all wrong anyways!
(Still glad I took those courses, though... I may even have an opportunity to apply that stuff someday.

)

MF

pierso20 · Post by **pierso20** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 4:46 pm

haha....and, we have a victory!

sloan · Post by **sloan** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 5:35 pm

Mike Finn wrote:
pierso20 wrote:...

So, in conclusion, economics is a complicated issue...which is why it is such a hard class in college...
Yeah, and then your Accounting professor tells you the Econ prof has it all wrong anyways!
MF

Accounting is the notes.

Economics is the music.