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The cheap-reader category was pure white space before someone noticed a job not getting done: People were going without extra pairs of glasses because they didn’t want to spend hundreds of dollars on prescription pairs.
Neumeier Marty • ZAG: The #1 Strategy of High-Performance Brands
This kind of bundling also occurs in the luxury watch market. Dealers occasionally need to buy a bundle which includes models that are hard to resell. These models often end up in gray-market channels, where original watches get sold at steep discounts. This kind of price erosion is toxic for luxury goods. A customer who has paid $25,000 for a
... See moreHermann Simon • Confessions of the Pricing Man: How Price Affects Everything
“They’ve got a monopoly on sunglasses” (Disclaimer: these aren’t specific stats just estimations for the drama 😉 and also it’s spelled Safilo* my bad) In conversation with Hippolyte of @the.dryads - my absolute favourite curation of vintage sunglasses. We get into how it all started, the value of vintage sunglasses, the manufacturer monopoly, niche... See more
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Their analysis depicts three distinct types of new luxury goods: accessible superpremium, old luxury brand extensions and mass prestige or mass-tige. Accessible superpremium designates products that are considered at or near the top of their categories in terms of quality, and are sold at a considerable premium. Despite the comparatively high price... See more
Fabian Faurholt Csaba • Redefining luxury: A review essay
二次流通市場についての抽象的な雑感メモ。二次流通の市場形成には段階があり、当然商材ごとで異なる部分あるがイメージこんな感じではと。
・最初はメーカー下取り中心
・怪しいブローカー、せどり業者が出始める
・ヤフオクでセミプロが出品、落札が増える
・メルカリで個人間売買が出始める
・インスタグラムとかで検索すると当該商品の写真とかが多く出てくるようになる
・総合リサイクル店が取り扱い始める
・店舗型の専門買取業者が出始める
・ネットでリスティング広告が出始める___LINEB... See more
石 泰成/seki tesonx.com