"Interestingly, after each price decrease, the company put the price back up again and saw a (slight) sales increase at the higher price to."
I think that last word should have been "too".
But to the point, I'm sure that increase in sales at the original higher price level more than likely can be attributed to the dramatic increase in sales at the lower price, where those people told their friends about this awesome game. When the friends went to purchase it on recommendation, the price was higher, but they purchased it anyway because they had a personal recommendation that the game was good from someone they trust.
Well, presumably on-stage was not his first time telling it, so the stage performance would be a retelling. So, he's probably actually told the joke a lot more than three times, unless he doesn't get booked a lot.
What did Howard the Duck ever do to you?!? He's just tryin' to get home while makin' his way in this world the only way he knows how ... by being Howard.
Usually they would pay the music writer's association a blanket fee to cover songs by member artists in their organizations for cover performances. Since they didn't use a recording they don't need to worry about the copyrights on the recordings, but they need to cover the licenses for the song's content from the writers. If they use a recording then they generally have to secure rights from the recording copyright holder.
As was MTV's case in the '90s, they had a blanket right to use a library of music for use on their shows. The State was able to use this library, but did not have rights for DVD distribution on those songs, and many of them had to be replaced with different tracks.
It's all just ridiculous since people aren't going to watch the Comedy Central show instead of purchasing "We Are The World" and people aren't going to watch the Comedy Central show because the title for "We Are The World" was sung a bit. Its use is not infringing on anyone's ability to make money off of "We Are the World", nobody is profiting off of someone else's work, and it just shows how copyright strangles our shared culture.
"one out of ten fans who is stupid enough to pay over the value for it"
You still obviously don't understand the difference between "value" and "price". "Value" is different from person to person. Your comments are value-less to me, yet to someone else they may hold value because they enjoy laughing at you.
Your one out of ten fans in your example obviously values the music more than the other nine.
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I more often get the feeling the major news outlets are telling me who to vote for. Major television networks are telling me what to buy. And politicians are telling me how to run my own personal life.
Welcome to the world of mass media. People share their ideas in an open forum. You can listen, or you can not. Hope you enjoy your stay, it seems like you're having a rough transition.
Nothing wrong with it. Just want to hear them admit it when they're doing it instead of playing all these PR games and doublespeak. It's fine if they want to do it, but don't insult our intelligence and lie about it.
"If only those going through that transformation could recognize it in those terms..."
I think many of them do. They just don't want to be one of the ones losing their jobs. They're probably just holding out until it's time for them to retire or they have their own great idea for what the new "thing" is. Until then, the longer they can stave off the tide, the better off they feel they'll be personally.
People would wait half an hour to download a free MP3 through Napster. I doubt people would have paid even $1 for the same privilege at the time. It was time that was paid for the download at the expense of cost that made it worthwhile to do. To spend that much time in addition to paying money would have been too much for the average user, I believe.
Once you complete the transaction, you have completed your customer experience. You don't even need to leave the store, just turn around, walk back, grab 5 more, and walk back to the register.
Best Buy stopped using DVDs as a loss leader a long time ago. New releases used to be about $15-18, now they're $20-25 (closer to or at the MSRP) ... so I believe they stopped using DVDs as a loss leader years ago.
Think of how much less time it would have taken to photocopy the submission with the correct orientation than to draft and send an e-mail (even using templates) asking for a resubmission. Isn't the filing fee supposed to cover costs associated to things like this?
Also, there's a difference between visits and views. A highly commented article would have a lot of "views" but not a lot of "visitors" since one person constantly refreshing the page adding more comments would increase a page's "views" but not its "visitors", and flamewars are usually between a small number of people.
In 1997, I remember it taking 25 minutes to download a single MP3 file on a 33.6kbps modem. The day I could download a song in as much time as it took to listen to it was a milestone.
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I think that last word should have been "too".
But to the point, I'm sure that increase in sales at the original higher price level more than likely can be attributed to the dramatic increase in sales at the lower price, where those people told their friends about this awesome game. When the friends went to purchase it on recommendation, the price was higher, but they purchased it anyway because they had a personal recommendation that the game was good from someone they trust.
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As was MTV's case in the '90s, they had a blanket right to use a library of music for use on their shows. The State was able to use this library, but did not have rights for DVD distribution on those songs, and many of them had to be replaced with different tracks.
It's all just ridiculous since people aren't going to watch the Comedy Central show instead of purchasing "We Are The World" and people aren't going to watch the Comedy Central show because the title for "We Are The World" was sung a bit. Its use is not infringing on anyone's ability to make money off of "We Are the World", nobody is profiting off of someone else's work, and it just shows how copyright strangles our shared culture.
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You still obviously don't understand the difference between "value" and "price". "Value" is different from person to person. Your comments are value-less to me, yet to someone else they may hold value because they enjoy laughing at you.
Your one out of ten fans in your example obviously values the music more than the other nine.
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Re: Ever get the feeling like Masnick wants to tell everyone how to run their business?
Welcome to the world of mass media. People share their ideas in an open forum. You can listen, or you can not. Hope you enjoy your stay, it seems like you're having a rough transition.
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Not all of them, but enough of them.
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I think many of them do. They just don't want to be one of the ones losing their jobs. They're probably just holding out until it's time for them to retire or they have their own great idea for what the new "thing" is. Until then, the longer they can stave off the tide, the better off they feel they'll be personally.
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"at any one time to any buyer"
Once you complete the transaction, you have completed your customer experience. You don't even need to leave the store, just turn around, walk back, grab 5 more, and walk back to the register.
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I claim you don't need to know his backstory to realize that.
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Have you gone meta? The Anti-Anti-Mike?
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