Greg Earhart at collegeswimming.com just posted a column that raises a troubling point about the new suits: collegeswimming.com/.../
What do you think?
Dolphin 2 - every time you show up and spout, you expose an increasingly impressive amount of ignorance.
The price of a product is determined by many factors other than the cost of the materials and labor. You have supply and demand, you have advertising costs, you have R & D.
Comparing the price of a garment to a commodity traded on international markets is ridiculous.
You keep saying the tech suit craze like it just happened. Do you know anything about swimming. IT ISN'T NEW. If you've been to a USMS meet in the past decade, you might actually know this. Have you watched the Olympics in your lifetime? You are roughly 20 years late on buying stock.
You have no idea how much profit or loss Speedo is making on these products. I would venture right now they are running a huge loss as they are giving many away and advertising like mad and you can't buy one retail, for the most part.
Lastly, niche market tech suits will never be the profit leader for a swimwear company. It's your run-of-the-mill suit that every single kid on every single team has that drives their profitability.
You really MUST STOP posting erroneous info. I beg of you.
Even if you spend $550 on one of these suits, I still put swimming way towards the bottom of the list of expensive habits.
Dolphin 2 - every time you show up and spout, you expose an increasingly impressive amount of ignorance.
The price of a product is determined by many factors other than the cost of the materials and labor. You have supply and demand, you have advertising costs, you have R & D.
Comparing the price of a garment to a commodity traded on international markets is ridiculous.
You keep saying the tech suit craze like it just happened. Do you know anything about swimming. IT ISN'T NEW. If you've been to a USMS meet in the past decade, you might actually know this. Have you watched the Olympics in your lifetime? You are roughly 20 years late on buying stock.
You have no idea how much profit or loss Speedo is making on these products. I would venture right now they are running a huge loss as they are giving many away and advertising like mad and you can't buy one retail, for the most part.
Lastly, niche market tech suits will never be the profit leader for a swimwear company. It's your run-of-the-mill suit that every single kid on every single team has that drives their profitability.
You really MUST STOP posting erroneous info. I beg of you.
Even if you spend $550 on one of these suits, I still put swimming way towards the bottom of the list of expensive habits.
