The case for buying above MSRP

[MTBer]

Originally Posted by Uggi

Maybe I'm just precious about effective use of English...

* normal bloke

You seem to be under the impression that “mass produced” is synonymous with “ubquity”, and that’s not the case. If Rolex made 10 million BLROs every year but there were 100 trillion people on waitlists for it, would you still claim the watch isn’t mass produced simply because of it’s relative scarcity?

I understand that people often use the descriptor “mass produced” as a pejorative to deride the ubiquity of something; while mass production certainly makes ubiquity more achievable, it doesn’t guarantee it, as is obviously the case with popular Rolex watches discussed here.

I also stand by your assertion that BLROs are uncommon. Those watches also happen to be mass produced. If you really want to be “precious about the effective use of English”, you’ll need to use words and phrases as they’re truly defined.

[123Blueface]

Thanks to this thread, I have learned that something mass produced is not mass produced if there is more demand than there is product, even though here is ample supply of the product.

My Marketing major with Economics minor was a sham.

[padi56]

Seems like this thread now has become a definition of the words mass produced so its now closed.