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Originally Posted by ebusinesstutor
Waiting is artificial - I am willing to buy the product so why make me wait?
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Because you might be one of those that are too impatient to wait and will buy the more expensive product. When you have a monopoly on distribution of a particular product, there is no race to the bottom price-wise. If you think there's a better scheme than they're currently using to make money, you'll have to prove it to them the hard way. I'm sure they've played with the parameters and watched to see what made them the most money overall.
As a consumer, I'm with you 100%. I hate getting volumes in a series 6 months or a year apart. There seems to be some kind of interplay with marketing for other products that I don't care about, and I and my buying patterns lose.
P.S. And I never did buy the third volume of the "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" books. They kept it at the hardcover for years, trying to milk the market. A pox on those spineless consumers who couldn't wait.