Re: Trek folks with Alloy vs Carbon Steerers

On 19 Nov 2005 15:00:46 -0800, "Scott" <hendricks_scott@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>First, you gotta get your sarcasm meter recalibrated. You apparently
>completely missed the sarcasm of my comments.

Fair cop, mostly, though I sometimes run across people who seriously
would have held those opinions and expressed them that way.

>Secondly, you sound surprisingly 'big business/free market' in your
>comments. Frankly, I agree with practically all your assessments,
>especially the part about it being wrong to NOT charge what the market
>will bear.

It goes both ways. I find it foolish to charge too little and
counterproductive (in the long term) to charge more than the item is
truly worth. That last part is the sticking point; determining the
worth is a very subjective process. One of my business associates is
fond of raising his prices until the sales fall off, and then backing
down just a bit, while another looks at the competition and matches
the pricing of the ones that are selling similar goods successfully.
Their methods both result in a profit in most cases, but they seldom
arrive at the same price point for the same type of item.

In a perfect world, the profit in making things would be in the
creative process; in the real world, the profit is in selling it.
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