🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <Mar.21.00.08.18.1989.15617@pilot.njin.net> limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) writes:
>(was originally on comp.arch... thought I'd cross-post this one to
>comp.sys.amiga)
>
>
>Nope.  Max Toy at the last JAUG meeting (and I've heard this other
>places) said (paraphrased) that they should have priced the machine
>much higher.  (1) People think it's so inexpensive that it can't be
>true (2) People are paying a lot more for only a little more power,
>they would have been willing to pay a little more for the same thing.
>(3) (same drift as #1) People don't take it seriously because it's not
>expensive enough.
>
>Could you imagine if they added $1000 to the price before releasing
>it?  They could have had a great student discount program, and they
>would have had more money to spend on marketing and software support.
>
>-Tom

   Wait! Do I hear consumers begging for a HIGHER price on their goods? Wait
'till my Economics professor hears about this. He now owes me about 10
points!

T.E.D.