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No perfect market exists (and trial is not near it). Without perfect market the rules for perfect market do not count. Making a sherco (or whatever brand) 1 euro cheaper does not change the volume sold (to 100%). Only a derivative of this idea is happening in the real world, and factors differ and are not totally clear for the consumers. E.g. a honda and a (lets say) GG at the same price, some people would go for the 4 stroke Honda, others for the GG (me). It would be interesting to see this differences in e.g. sherco and sherpa, what happens if you make one 100 euro cheaper or more expansive.

 

But what is happening; a customer has more choice, and (most often) only buys one bike. Changes are every buyer of a TRS or vertigo is a ex GG, Honda etc rider. So keeping prices the same, volume gets eaten away with more competition.

 

Buying a bike is emotion, not rationality, so ... bladibla

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I don't think Honda, Beta, or Sherco/Scorpa will have anything to worry about anytime soon. Perhaps prices will drop a bit after a few years if the new companies don't go broke. Well, except Honda, they'll charge whatever because people will pay more.

 

 

Either way, best of luck to any TRS customers, hopefully spares are still available down the track.

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No nigel the beta ,sherco/scorpa aren,t any cheaper (mont is mind). BUT if J/gas fail and Trs and the infant new GG venture dies again it only leaves 4 options for the buyer. Vertigo & its stupid (in my view) no p/x rule wont sell enough to dent those 4. So limited choices means prices go up cause if you want to play you have to pay!!! Ergo if the above mentioned all thrive which I hope they do & ossa come back,then our choice is doubled hence no one manufacturer can put a huge increase on its prices cause we could buy something else.Kinda obvious..

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No nigel the beta ,sherco/scorpa aren,t any cheaper (mont is mind). BUT if J/gas fail and Trs and the infant new GG venture dies again it only leaves 4 options for the buyer. Vertigo and its stupid (in my view) no p/x rule wont sell enough to dent those 4. So limited choices means prices go up cause if you want to play you have to pay!!! Ergo if the above mentioned all thrive which I hope they do and ossa come back,then our choice is doubled hence no one manufacturer can put a huge increase on its prices cause we could buy something else.Kinda obvious..

 

Sorry confused now? In one post you say its more competitive reduce prices in the other monts charge what they want and beta sherco still the same? Which is it?

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... If theres only one or two manufacturers of anything the product is generally expensive.

... the beta ,sherco/scorpa aren,t any cheaper (mont is mind). BUT if J/gas fail and Trs and the infant new GG venture dies again it only leaves 4 options for the buyer. Vertigo and its stupid (in my view) no p/x rule wont sell enough to dent those 4. So limited choices means prices go up cause if you want to play you have to pay!!! Ergo if the above mentioned all thrive which I hope they do and ossa come back,then our choice is doubled hence no one manufacturer can put a huge increase on its prices cause we could buy something else.Kinda obvious..

To me that indicates if we keep everything and gain the missing two it theoretically gets cheaper if it stays the current 4 then it will stay about the same or will go up...

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That's about it jonnyc21. If you have 50 manufacturers then no one of them can be wildly more expensive or cheaper than the other 49. If you only have 3 manufacturers they can charge what they like,cause if we want/need the product we will pay no matter what..

 

Thats how it works in perfect market conditions. If you make it one euro cheaper you go banktrupt, if you make it one euro more expensive nobody buys. Howerever, like mentioned before, those markets dont exists, and the ''rules'' or conditions for this do not account for the trial market:

  • full information -- haha information and trial manufacturers
  • no market leaders to set prices
  • non intervention by governments -- Spain?
  • no entry or exit bariers -- will you start up a trial factory tomorow?
  • Equal acces to production factors
  • Profit maximalisation -- e.g. Honda has the ability to keep producing even if its not profitable.
  • no externalities

Most of all, a trials bike, is not a homogeneous product. Even though they are all trials bikes. Some people like a 4 stroke, others 2 stroke. People like brands, one favors this, another favors that.

 

Trials market is more something like a oligopoly, although it does not meet all criteria (again no market does, those are theoretical)

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