You know the Fujifilm camera shortages? Fujifilm is doing it on purpose.

Rumor

www.digitalcameraworld.com/news/you-know-the-fujifilm-camera-shortages-fujifilm-is-doing-it-on-purpose

"Fujifilm products are deliberately kept on back-order. It says the situation is "normal" and "it would be a waste if we produced too many products" 🤔

in fujixby xlerate

38%

14d

Bimancze

14d

If PlayStation could fix it, they can too. So far it doesn't really seem like they are interested in that..

They are effectively contributing to the scalper problem. In fact they are part of the problem tbh

ICEwaveFX

14d

Well, it was in Sony's interest to fix the problem since the games are the money makers. Since Fuji only makes money from hardware, the scarcity works in their favor. Pretty sure their marketing department is very happy with this.

On top of that, they make more money by selling instax products, they have no interest in investing money in scaling up the production of digital cameras.

Ok_Breadfruit4176

14d

How about not being g so erratic? There‘s not even a source to this quote provided.

Razorvein

14d

The article states:

“President and CEO, Teiichi Goto, during the company's full-year financial results announcement in Japan, said that he considers the stock situation ‘normal’.”

“‘It would be a waste if Fujifilm produced too many products and lowered the price,’ replied Goto.”

So the source of the quote is earnings announcement.

flyingbbanana

13d

Thats a big accusation. How about they just dont want to increase their production size because it’s only a short term monetary gain and not sustainable for their business . This is more logical. Cameras are not a necessity.

Now imagine if they scale up production (more workers/equipment) Sure Fuji is trendy now, what if they’re not trendy in a few years or the economy takes a downturn. They have to layoff workers or decrease everyone’s pay, have an expensive machine that’s underutilized.

So yeah. Enough with the dumb theory.

_DEATH_STR0KE_

X-T30

14d

capitalism huh....you'll be shocked at the type of things they'll do to make more money

danielfrost40

X-T3

13d

I'm super unconvinced that this phenomenon of "they actually want everyone to not be able to even buy one despite being in a competitive market" actually is real.

Azeralpha

14d

Demand and supply.