Re: FS: (18) LCD1901HD 19" HD LCD MONITORS, NEW IN BOX

["Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Dave Houston" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

> Plus - a story in today's NYT recommends waiting til January when dealers
> will be dumping excess inventory.

In today's quarter by quarter business world, Christmas usually means the
last chance a vendor will get to pump up their sales figures, even if those
sales don't push up profts they still make Wall St. happy because it means
the company is not holding inventory into the new year.  That's when we see
plenty of markdown ads as vendors fear the older, more expensive models will
have to be sold at a loss.  The Superbowl skews those figures a bit, giving
some 1st quarter relief to TV makers when the folks who didn't make the
Christmas purchase now spend their $ on a big screen TV.

There was lots of industry chatter last year about Olevia entering the
market and doing a lot of damage to the price structure that had been fairly
stable up until then.

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:KdltcRasBhkJ:www.syntaxbrillian.com/pdf
/news/NYTimes_Article.pdf+Olevia+forces+prices+down&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=8&gl=us
&lr=lang_en

I recall reading somewhere that their plan for this year was to market a 23"
HDTV for $99 by Christmas time.

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Bobby G.