Replies to post #4555 on Hop-On Inc (HPNN)

[mghamberlin]

The price difference between a named brand phone and a HPON phone is not that great. There is a hugh difference between buying a towel or washcloth and saving $.50 over the cost of the same or like item at Wal-Mart and buying a Cell Phone, which people are very very "Clicky" about, and saving $25.00 to $50.00. That is like saying I could have bought a fully loaded Chevy Tahoe for $32,000.00 but I decided to go with a fully loaded KIA Sportage for $26,000.00. Trust me. 99.9% of people would pay the extra $6,000.00 and get the Tahoe. On the same note, people will pay the extra $25.00 to $50.00 and get the fully loaded MOT, LG, etc. phone over a HPON.

Something I have noticed about poor people. It is one thing to be poor. It is another thing all together to act like it. I have people working for me who make Minumum wage that drive nice cars. Not the heavly discounted imports (i.e. KIA). They also have the top of the line cell phones. As a matter of fact 4 of the people who work for me just traded up and had to pay full price because they were still under contract for the new Nokia phone with the speaker phone addition. These people, although not wealty, would not be caught dead with a discounted phone like HPON.

[dixiecats]

Right, wistock, which is why I can't understand why Wirex (and others) don't put a 'PRICE TAG' on the phones depicted on their Website displays. Purchasers ARE more interested in the price of the darn things than the make, in my opinion. The make (ie., status symbol) is of 'secondary' importance imo, and the fact that the '1806' is supposedly 'cute' would come in 'third'..... ps.. Also imo, the 1806 is 'cheap' (ie., sold to distributors at a low margin) because they were paid for by stockholder capital ONLY (ie., NO OVERHEAD involved to increase the wholesale price). jmo, dc...