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Originally Posted by Billi
Why is this good?
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Why is it good if we get a below-cost price?
Excellent question.
Ask Jeff Bezos why it's good for him to have US$20 billion instead of US$10 billion.
Unless you are in poverty, on the consumer side, or care more about your employees than your stockholders, on the business side, I suppose it's a game.
My wife and I are not big into couponing, but isn't there a sense of achievement when you use a doubled coupon on a sale item and know you are getting it for free, or for a few cents and thus likely below costs?
Now, the desire to achieve financial success at the expense of some other entity does need to be leavened by a commitment to moral values. If Amazon was a company
famous for putting people above profits, I'd be a bit ashamed to get something over on them. But, instead, this is Amazon, famous, at least lately, for
treating workers badly. So, sure, if I reliably learned that Amazon lost money on my K3, I'd be happy.