Author: Bert Seifriz
Date: 11:37:04 10/29/98
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On October 29, 1998 at 12:58:23, Dann Corbit wrote: >You have to imagine from Ed's point of view also. Look at a box for >chessmaster. My CM5500 CD says "4 million sold" on it. This was questioned here many times. It refers to all versions of Chessmaster and nobody knows if the number is just a plain lie! That's because it is >cheap as dirt to buy. Supply and demand is a differential equation, whereby you >want to maximize profit by the product of the number sold times their price. > >Sometimes you can make more money by lowering the price. Let's see: >4,000,000 * $45 = $180,000,000. >Not a bad little sum. > No, but your calculation is a dream. Do you think if Rebel costs 1 buck you will sell 4 million? Never. Rather people think it is trash and buy nothing. To slash a price by half 2 weeks after its release is suicide! Bert
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