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[Admin: vote fraud with users md1..md5 deleted. Why?] |
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You would be referring no doubt to my assistants who also thought it was a good idea. Just because it comes from the same IP address does not mean it is fraud |
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(The previous notice started out as "Because I think it deserves more than one vote", but was quickly replaced with what you see now.) |
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If your own voice is more important than those of other users at this site to the point of deceiving them, why bother communicating with other people at all? |
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Some people are just so desperate for attention. It's actually not a bad idea, otherwise. |
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Actually, it is a bad idea. |
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The ostensible point of services
like Priceline is to aggregate
individual consumers together to
build "buying power" (basically,
the ability to get bulk discounts). |
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A major distributor like PeaPod or
a supermarket already buys in bulk
and has plenty of buying power.
They don't need Priceline. |
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A recent Salon article suggests
that Priceline is really about
price discrimination, not bulk
discount, but the point is moot;
corporate purchasers are also
ineligible for price discrimination. |
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If Priceline were a magic way to
reduce the price of goods, then
that would be the economic
equivalent of a perpetual motion
machine. |
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...all sorts of bizarre names, each one an anagram of "PeterSealy"; Teresa Pyle, Earl Steepy, Ray Steeple, etc. :-) |
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For one person, it wouldn't be bad. For everybody, it'd quickly flop. |
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Hey, e-business is already dead, so I guess this idea is too. |
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