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Old 01-27-2009, 09:52 PM
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Originally Posted by krmathis View Post
Great news!
Guess we were right then. That there are higher demand for exclusive headphones out there that the vendors thought.
Perhaps.

But false scarcity is a common marketing technique. Effective if you want a product to be seen as exclusive and as a disincentive for retailers to discount their stock.

Sennheiser has over 40 years of market data on their headphones. It is difficult to believe they misjudged demand.
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