Sorry I did miss “more”
You’ll have to believe me when I say I understand it, I’m responsible for global marketing for a company who are currently running a feasibility study on a carbon fibre swingarm, not for motorcycles but the methods involved are identical. That involves predicting sales, balancing against labour and tooling costs and working out whether to invest in marketing to make it feasible to do off shore, and yes, advertising is an investment.
Advertising does have a “cost” but in most cases its actually a benefit to the consumer, you could add sponsorship into that cost but I’d think most racers here are happy when they find a sponsor, they don’t consider its other consumers paying for that
Nowt’s free in life and like you say most here are in agreement, we just need guidelines so its the same for everyone.
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So yes, advertising does have a cost to the advertiser but no, it doesn’t always mean the customer pays for the product, they might actually pay less....... | I think you missed 'more' out of that.
But - trust me on this - at any particular time the consumer is paying for the advertising. In the long term loads of advertising and increases in production may give rise to cheaper methods of production and lower prices for the consumer.
But it might take a while and also it might not happen at all. Carbon fibre, with the continued demand from the American Military and Boeing together with the sudden insatiable demand from Airbus Industries, might be a case in point.
I think all these recent posts are all pretty much in agreement. And I agree with them.
There is no such thing as 'uncensored'. As with all these things there is always a line to be drawn. It is just a question of where it is drawn, who draws it and who enforces it and how!!
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