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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Subject: Re: Free Markets and Product Quality
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Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 09:24:40 EDT
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> Now don't flame me for being anti-competition or protectionist.  I'm not,
> but I am tired of the terminally trendy buying foreign because it's
> perceived to be the thing to buy, and never really analyzing whether it's
> really a better pro-duct.  Or what the other free-market effects are.

Now, I won't flame you, but I do disagree.  I don't think competition with
the Japanese has anything to do with decreasing Kodak quality.  The way to
beat someone who has a better price than you is to produce a better quality
of product or service (at a reasonable rate).  Kodak has very good, fast,
automated equipment, and I suspect that other factors are involved in
decreasing quality of their processing services, if they exist.

Personally I buy Kodak film, paper, and developer, and do the processing
myself, because it is better in quality than others, e.g., Unicolor.
However, this has nothing to do with being "terminally trendy"; you have
to buy the product that is of the best quality.

Aside from that, I can't see why buying a roll of Fuji film should affect
the quality of processing... do you send it to Japan to have it processed?
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