Stardate 20010905.1413 (On Screen): A lot of big companies want to scare the pants off you about the grey market. In some cases the products won't be compatible with your area -- but that's rare. In most cases, the reason there is a grey market is that the companies are charging "what the market will bear" and it bears different things in different areas. As a result, they sell the exact same products for cheaper some places than others. Unfortunately for them, this means that there is an opportunity for other people to buy those products cheap one place and import them to other places where the original companies are trying to maintain higher prices. If Compaq and Nortel and Xerox
really want to eliminate the grey market, the way to do it is to straighten out their pricing so that there isn't any price differential, thus eliminating the benefit that the grey market brings.
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