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Originally Posted by Barcey
If the price is much higher then people expect to pay it's viewed as gouging or an insult. Everyone has their own level but you don't want to alienate the majority of your customers.
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This is why Apple, with their $5,000 computers, and Louis Vuitton, with their $1000 handbags, are so unpopular...
You seem determined to view expensive goods as a personal insult.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
A lot of the "They had to know" comments about publishers on this thread prompt a "What do you mean by 'they'?" response from me. Most publishers are units of big companies, and employ thousands of people. Assuming that all employees are of the same mind and on the same page is just silly. Often the left hand really doesn't know what the right hand is doing, and sometimes that bites them on the butt.
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Meh, I'm not really convinced by that. A modern accounting department should have no trouble keeping track of linked products. They aren't recording their prices on slips of paper, and the failure to maintain parallel pricing windows is sheer incompetence, though I'd accept that part of the responsibility lies with the retailers.