ORIGINAL: Greg / MO
How this product looks, especially in a picture -- on a website at that – has got to be theworst (emphasis added) reason I’ve yet seen used to calculate that product’s value to its customer base.
Sorry Greg, but I have to disagree.
I won't buy a $20,000.00 Yugo, because it looks like a piece of crap. I don't need to test-drive it. I don't need to feel the upholstery. I don't need to read testimonials. It looks crappy, so I take a pass. Trust me, I can tell from the pictures. Sometime, pictures alone are enough tobase your opinionon. See Exhibit A.
The People's Exhibit A
I do the same thing with food, clothing, hairstyles, dry goods, and pretty much every tangible piece of merchandise that I buy. It's the American way. We window shop. Welcome to America, where we base purchases on visual perception. We're all guilty of window-shopping. If you say you've never based an opinion on looks alone- you're only kidding yourself.
My question is (and has always been): What justification is there for dropping a bill-and-a-half on a pair of 4-pocket hunting pants? What justification is there for paying $180 for a pair of unlined hunting pants with cargo pockets? No scent containment (that's extra).
You guys are flying off the handle because you don't like the answer - not the question. If everyone would've jumped on here and said "Gray Wolf is the greatest bargain in the free world," y'all would've gone to bed happy, with rainbows dancing in your dreams.
If it's purely a donation to the small domestic guy who provides exemplary customer service and a competitive product, and fights thegiants -then let's call it that.
If it's truly a superior product, then let's call a spade a spade and give credit where it's due.
Like many things, the realanswer apparentlylies somewhere in the middle, and is subject to subjectivity. The results of this survey and the bulk of the opinions being floated here, however, seem to suggest that he isusing solid materials (warp knit is good stuff), but just that his prices are a lot higher than the Average Joe canafford. So, the crux of the whole discussion seems tosuggest that, ifGWWever wants to bite off a bigger market share or get his product in morepeoples' collective hands - it mightbe time to explore a larger economy of scale and try to start suppressing the costs in whatever ways possible.