Put Off By Price Rises

[Anonymous]

We have to separate the case of greed and fraud from general economic cycle. Yes, there is fraud in business and that's unfortunate - it should be punished when its detected and there should be systems and checks & balances to detect it early.

It's always easy to look for scapegoats in any problem. Reality is today's very crisis is a very complicated one - I won't go into this much though. Like people said, this is a hi-fi forum!

 

[Andrew Everard]

Tarquinh:What a lot of rubbish. I'm getting out of here. You never know, with the amount of fools on this post, idiocy might be contagious.
See you when winter bites cold next.

Please do not attack other members.

 

[Terryff]

I wish i was a fool, life would be so much easier, all i would have to worry about would be the excessive drooling......

 

[Anonymous]

I can see that a lot of manufacturers are loving this, hike up the prices and profits and blame the economic climate, easy............

 

[professorhat]

They'd probably prefer more consumers spending rather than charging the few that are spending a bit more...

 

[Anonymous]

There are two types of people in this life, the whingers and the doers, some people will whinge over anything they have to pay for, and the doer, will buckle down and get on with the job, gets his hands dirty, learns and survives.

 

[Anonymous]

MENISCUS:I can see that a lot of manufacturers are loving this, hike up the prices and profits and blame the economic climate, easy............

There's no free lunch. Manufacturer raises prices, that makes the firm uncompetitive. Unless everyone is in the same boat (ie economic climate) the prices will stay low because the competition will force the companies to lower prices. So economic climate will not be the "get out of jail" card for any manufacturer.

This of course excludes monopolies, but given how many players there are in the hi-fi field, that won't happen ever.

 

[The_Lhc]

chebby: The politicians are laughing in your face and their husbands are openly buying porn from the internet

Well let's have some accuracy here, he watched the films on Pay-per-View TV (so either Sky or Virgin Cable) and the charges were included in the Subscription which Smith claimed for as part of her second home allowance.

Initially I'd assumed that this was because they were on an all-in-one internet/tv package though Sky or Virgin and was going to complain that she was claiming for all of it rather than just claiming for the internet connection (which is fine, lots of people get their net connection paid for by their employer if they use it for work), but I've just read that MPs are actually allowed to claim for TV subscription as well, but only if they use it solely for their work, which seems doubtful really, I think even Harry Hill would have trouble convincing people of that.

Anyway, the issue, as far as I'm concerned anyway, is the claiming of the TV subscription alongside the internet subscription, the content is irrelevant as far as I'm concerned, he's a grown man, he can watch what he likes (and it's not like it'll be hardcore anyway, if he's watching on TV) , that's simply a matter for husband and wife. It's the false claims for the TV package in general that's the issue.

 

[The_Lhc]

silly:There are two types of people in this life, the whingers and the doers, some people will whinge over anything they have to pay for, and the doer will ...

Pay for the speakers anyway?

buckle down and get on with the job, gets his hands dirty, learns and survives.

oh.

 

[Andrew Everard]

the_lhc:
chebby: The politicians are laughing in your face and their husbands are openly buying porn from the internet

Well let's have some accuracy here, he watched the films on Pay-per-View TV (so either Sky or Virgin Cable)

Virgin, according to press reports

 

[Anonymous]

Tarquinh:Frankly, after 5 months of creative idleness with no job prospects this year or in the forseeable future, I'm all for the French model. Posting on forums like this one is fun, but I'd rather being doing something more meaningful with my time and the talents such as I have them.

Hear hear...

 

[chebby]

silly:There are two types of people in this life, the whingers and the doers, some people will whinge over anything they have to pay for, and the doer, will buckle down and get on with the job, gets his hands dirty, learns and survives.

Nah, they get them too. They even get the 'cheerleaders' for the rich and smug. So ungrateful.

Or as someone (who deserves to be forgotten) famously said to the unemployed and homeless back in the 1980s... "Get on yer bike!"

Actually to be more accurate he said...

"I grew up in the '30s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot. He got
in his Bentley and went down his club, and he kept going there until one of his chums gave him a directorship"

 

[Anonymous]

silly:There are two types of people in this life, the whingers and the doers, some people will whinge over anything they have to pay for, and the doer, will buckle down and get on with the job, gets his hands dirty, learns and survives.

The old adage " A fool and his money are soon parted " springs to mind...........

 

[Frank Harvey]

silly:There are two types of people in this life, the whingers and the doers, some people will whinge over anything they have to pay for, and the doer, will buckle down and get on with the job, gets his hands dirty, learns and survives.Hear hear.

 

[chebby]

There are two types of people in this world. The ones that quote Daily Mail style nuggets about the "two types of people in this life" and the ones that don't.

"I didn't get where I was today quoting nuggets from the Daily Mail...."

 

[Anonymous]

No, there are three types of people in this world. Those who understand mathematics, and those who don't.

 

[Andrew Everard]

Someone is so going to do that hilarious binary joke any minute now...

 

[chebby]

Andrew Everard:Someone is so going to do that hilarious binary joke any minute now...

01010100011010000110010...

EDITED BY MODS for numerical obscenity

...01110111010000101110

 

[Terryff]

There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't

 

[Andrew Everard]

Terryff:There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't

Ever thought of going on QI?

 

[Andrew Everard]

MENISCUS:The old adage " A fool and his money are soon parted " springs to mind...........

There are two types of people in this world: those who say "the old adage" and those who know that an adage is, by definition, old...

 

[Ravey Gravey Davy]

chebby:

Andrew Everard:Someone is so going to do that hilarious binary joke any minute now...

01010100011010000110010...

...01110111010000101110

 

[Terryff]

Too Low Brow for me

 

[Anonymous]

Andrew Everard:Someone is so going to do that hilarious binary joke any minute now...

Well, I was going to do the Team America version of the three types of people in the world, but that definitely wouldn't make the cut.

And there are nine million bicycles in Bejing, apparently. That's just about enough to crush every Katie Melua CD.

 

[Anonymous]

I really don't see the point in everyone keeping on whinging about this. I mean seriously, what can you do about it?!

It's not as if people buy Hi-Fi kit on a weekly or monthly basis either and if you can afford a £1500 pair of speakers then you can afford £1800.

Unless you're someone who's job is looking under threat then all this talk of "tightening belts" is just being daft. My advice is to anyone reading this is if you want it then stop grumbling and bloody buy it! Be grateful that you're not living in a country like India or South Afica and wanting to buy a decent car! lol

It's because of everyone's thinking this way that's making the economic situation much worse in the first place.