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GoPro shows its vulnerability after horrific Q3 earnings

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Re: GoPro shows its vulnerability after horrific Q3 earnings

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Post by mikestew »

barrkel wrote: post #146
mikestew wrote: post #25

I try not to generalize personal experience to a company's stock price. But in GoPro's case I'm picturing a bunch of folks like me who bought one, and then swore to never again buy anything with GoPro's name on it. And those people tell their friends who are considering an "action camera". So you end up with a segment of customers from whom you'll never extract another dime, plus all of the people who might have boug…

GoPro is a poor shape to use with motorbikes; helmet mounts in particular are ludicrous. Any particular reason you didn't consider Drift? Fairly happy with mine, using it as a helmet-cam.

Any particular reason you didn't consider Drift?

Because, as I've outlined elsewhere in this thread, I'm an idiot who thought the name brand was a safe bet and didn't do enough research.

That said, most of the time it's mounted to the front crash bar or a saddlebag. Not a big fan of protrusions on my helmet.

Re: GoPro shows its vulnerability after horrific Q3 earnings

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Post by neves »

foolfoolz wrote: post #78

the GoPro camera is the best camera I own. I don't need a DSLR, I'm not a serious photographer, I'll use my phone for regular pictures. but I really enjoy having a high quality camera for surfing, snowboarding, scuba diving, and slow mo but it's so well made, and it's always in the case (so I can put it on a mount) that ot still Looks feels brand new. I bet it will last me 5 more years

I agree. It just fail at low light. But now I travel just with the GoPro and my phone. Nothing heavy anymore.

Re: GoPro shows its vulnerability after horrific Q3 earnings

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Post by neves »

gigatexal wrote: post #174

Meh, I am buying some shares of FitBit and GoPro tomorrow as either could get acquired or bust, but at > 25% discounts i'll take that risk as the potential upside is too good to miss. Purely speculation on my part

And their new product looks great. For the first time I lust to upgrade my Hero 3+.

Re: GoPro shows its vulnerability after horrific Q3 earnings

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Post by mikestew »

bobjordan wrote: post #126
mikestew wrote: post #25

I try not to generalize personal experience to a company's stock price. But in GoPro's case I'm picturing a bunch of folks like me who bought one, and then swore to never again buy anything with GoPro's name on it. And those people tell their friends who are considering an "action camera". So you end up with a segment of customers from whom you'll never extract another dime, plus all of the people who might have boug…

In this case, the Chinese originally were not copying anything, GoPro just sourced the cameras from a CM here in Shenzhen, putting the GoPro name on it. I suspect the relationship stayed much the same through Hero 2 & 3, with the CM driving the design improvements in the camera.

You know, I was tempted in one of my several comments in this thread to make some snarky comment about how GoPro is a "cheap Chinese knockoff" that they just silkscreened "GoPro" onto. But that seemed unnecessarily mean and petty, and I only half-suspected it.

But I'll be damned, according to you I was right.

Re: GoPro shows its vulnerability after horrific Q3 earnings

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Post by hasperdi »

gigatexal wrote: post #174

Meh, I am buying some shares of FitBit and GoPro tomorrow as either could get acquired or bust, but at > 25% discounts i'll take that risk as the potential upside is too good to miss. Purely speculation on my part

Bear in mind that GoPro's is a company with the most shorted stocks in the market.

Re: GoPro shows its vulnerability after horrific Q3 earnings

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Post by stouset »

gigatexal wrote: post #174

Meh, I am buying some shares of FitBit and GoPro tomorrow as either could get acquired or bust, but at > 25% discounts i'll take that risk as the potential upside is too good to miss. Purely speculation on my part

It's only at a discount if you have a naïve that there's a price it "should" be trading at "normally".

Trading individual stocks as a retail investor is a sucker's game.

Re: GoPro shows its vulnerability after horrific Q3 earnings

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Post by fezz »

bobjordan wrote: post #126
mikestew wrote: post #25

I try not to generalize personal experience to a company's stock price. But in GoPro's case I'm picturing a bunch of folks like me who bought one, and then swore to never again buy anything with GoPro's name on it. And those people tell their friends who are considering an "action camera". So you end up with a segment of customers from whom you'll never extract another dime, plus all of the people who might have boug…

In this case, the Chinese originally were not copying anything, GoPro just sourced the cameras from a CM here in Shenzhen, putting the GoPro name on it. I suspect the relationship stayed much the same through Hero 2 & 3, with the CM driving the design improvements in the camera.

Skylight Digital was the ODM, AFAIK

This was from a shipping manifest search a few years ago.

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