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Originally Posted by pwalker8
That's known as moving the goal post. After I point out that there is no reason that loyaly programs couldn't co-exists with an agency price model, you shift to "but some reseller X didn't continue their loyalty program". Hey, you will have to ask reseller X why they didn't continue their loyalty program. Maybe it was losing money and they were looking for an excuse to discontinue it. I was pointing out that the initial narrative that agency pricing shut down loyalty programs is false.
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Yes you attempted to move the goal post and Diapdealer moved it back. If you recognize the problem why did you try to do it?
The discussion was about the price of ebooks before and after the agency price model as implemented by the Publisher/Apple conspiracy. That conspiracy included "agent" contracts that did not allow any form of discounting. When that was clearly pointed out to you there was an attempt (by you) to change the discussion to "agency price models" in the abstract and not this specific implementation.
If it was possible do you really believe that "evil" Amazon wouldn't have just claimed their Prime membership as a loyalty program and credited their customers the delta between $9.99 and the publisher agency price on NYT best sellers?