For fucks sake folks, lets remember this whole "recommended donation" crap is just a means to dodge state interference. Fixed consumer prices (same price to every consumer from a given vendor, not price fixing between competing vendors or guilds) is a important factor in a free society. Any thing else encourages people to abuse generosity and seek after privilege.
If Mama Ally managed The Last Biscuit in Georgia, her methods should work much better in a place surrounded with sympathetic admirers and friends.
I just want her to carry on, start over, and stay out of the more active, visible side of the movement.
Price discrimination is the key to efficiency. To simply illustrate, consider a DVD, let's say "Deep Inside Dirty Train Conductor Sluts". In order to satisfy the most possible customers and maximize profits, you need to be able to charge each individual the most they will be willing to pay. Obviously, the technology to do this completely does not exist presently, so you will use whatever measures you have available to you. This is why you see limited-time sale prices, coupons, buy two-get-one-free, discounts for elderly perverts, etc. The one-price paradigm leaves one group of of people having their viewing pleasure subsidized by another group with nothing but peeking through the window blinds at school children getting off the bus in the morning. Very sad.
Clearly, the donation model only works to the degree that customers are fair. With the right population, and exercising some degree of discrimination in kicking out assholes, you could find a great deal of success. Limiting your clientele to folks who know one another and have have some salient margin of commonality is key.
Interesting. I thought sales were mainly to clean out inventory or get a new product introduced to the market.
If one got brand new copies of "Deep Inside Dirty Train Conductor Sluts" to sell right outside The Dicktease Tittie Bar and Grill after last call, you could surely gouge the hell out of the first dozen or so blueballed suckers limping out of there.
What we could get away with in Mulligans Vally and what we can get away with in New Hampshire I don't know. I personally work on a cost basis, retail is not my area of expertise. I would get frustrated with vendors that raised there supply prices after I gave out a quote to a customer though.
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