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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
But you do expect me to do something. You expect me to sit on my hands and not pirate the particluar I.P. I want
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What a non-sequitor. Folks that will steal, will steal. I do not worry about it. I'm speaking about folks who wish to see the backlist put out by the publishers for legitimate purchasing. I was hoping to highlight the inconsistency of wishing companies to spend their time and money creating a product for them, while at the same time arguing that such a product has little value and therefore should be priced like a used paper back book.
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
The more people you make happy with your product/service, the more customers you will get.
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Another non-sequitor. I replied to your naieve assertion that the customer is always right. Well, that's not true. No business believes it is no matter what their marketing might say.
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
This is not selling Fords for free. It's making Ford realize that you can buy a Hundai. And if you do, Ford has one less customer. One less opportunity to make a profit.
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Great example. Ford has to compete with Hyundai's new cars -- Ford does not try to put out new cars to compete with used Ford's from the 70's.
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
As to the can't get richer comment. Isn't that what Coca-Cola does every day? or Hersheys, Mars, or Frito-Lay? They know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that nobody has to buy their products
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They spend hundreds of millions of dollars convincing folks to pay their high prices. Imagine how cheap Coke would be if the company listened to folks on this forum who think that cost has something to do with price. Let's see...coke is water plus sugar and a few other ingredients that add up to a penny or so, throw in another couple pennies for the can and distribution. And what? Coke should sell for 10 cents a can instead of a dollar? (from a soda machine). Even the 25 cents a can you can get on sale is 2 to three times the cost.
Coke doesn't give a flying fig that lots of folks think their prices are shockingly high. Does not care that there are numerous no-name brands that sell for far cheaper. Every person who drinks a cola is not Coke's customer target. Coke would rather spend millions upon millions of dollars building a brand than saving all of us that money and make their product cheap.
Lee