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Originally Posted by rhadin
My question is this: If Amazon raises its price so that it is just barely less than the price your indie bookstore or B&N charges, will you continue to support Amazon at the expense of possibly losing the indie/B&N? At what point, if any point, are you willing to support competition?
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My answer is simple: at
no point am I willing to inconvenience myself (or spend more money) to "support" competition. I'm the consumer; that's not my job. It's up to the
competing businesses to entice me to be a patron. If they (the business) need to rely on
assistance from their customers--in the form of being willing to spend even
slightly more money than they have to (for no added service), or going out of their way a little more than they might have to--then they're already out of business... they just haven't accepted it yet.
The only exemption to my own philosophy would be if I personally
knew the proprietor of a business. But even in that instance, my altruism only goes so far: meaning I'm only willing to
help ... not perform CPR on a dying business model at the expense of my own financial common-sense.
Bottom line is this: I feel no loyalty|sympathy|obligation to businesses (or industries). Especially those businesses who were free to make the same decisions--to recognize the same future business potential--that Amazon did long ago. I'm not going to reward anyone for getting beat at their own game.