Re: Nibble DVD

["Rudy Guy" <ljsilicon@ameritech.net>]

Bravo!
  Bravo!
    Bravo!

"Tim Haynes" <timhaynes@alumni.NO.SPAM.PLEASE.uwaterloo.ca> wrote in message 
news:djlerm$8jn$1@rumours.uwaterloo.ca...
> Paul Schlyter wrote:
>> In article <2X87f.18528$vw6.7316@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net>,
>> BluPhoenyx  <bluphoenyx-@-earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Mike reduced the dvd price to $89.95. A much better price for you
>>>guys who didn't want to pay the original cost.
>>
>>
>> To call it "much" better is a clear overstatement, but OK, it's
>> somewhat better.  But not enough IMO.  When it reaches $25-$30 I'll
>> bite, but not before.  I'm patient - I can wait a few years or more.
>> Or it may never happen -- then I'll accept that and do without it.
>
> Wow, some people are never happy!  The next time your local Wal-Mart, has 
> a sale, maybe you should picket it and complain about their obvious 
> marketing ploy where they sell something for $X but when it doesn't sell, 
> they lower their price to $X-1.
>
> This is the capitalist marketplace, it happens all the time. Complaining 
> about it seems a bit absurd, especially since Mike is probably doing it in 
> response to the (vocal minority) here who complained about the higher 
> price, and not because he's trying to implement some weird stepwise price 
> reduction to bleed us all dry.
>
> Honestly, complaining about what Mike does about ANYTHING is a bit like 
> looking a gift horse in the mouth.  He did so much for the A2 community 
> before, during, and after Nibble's long run that, as far as I am 
> concerned, he can do whatever he wants with whatever he has, and none of 
> us have any right to whine about it.  Think of the hours (days, weeks?!) 
> of joy Nibble gave you!  And now think about your whining!  Feel silly? I 
> would.
>
>> Note the cheap and all too common psychological trick Wal-mart uses when
>> they set the price.  Now it's not $90, it's $89.95 -- that's just a
>> 5 cents difference, but it makes the first digit being an 8 rather
>> than a 9.  A gullible customer will then perceive the price
>> difference as much larger than 5 cents.
>
> I fixed your typos.
>
> Tim