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Subj: Why not?
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 at 07:43:18 pm EST (Viewed 596 times)
Reply Subj: Why?
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 at 05:15:24 pm EST (Viewed 2 times)




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    I suppose you're not allowed to have diabetes.


That would be great!



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    I'll probably stick to being a hermit. I just checked my diary and I don't actually need to go outside now until March 9th.


That can't be healthy.



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      It's the #1 rule of capitalism now. Why get something better when you can have mediocrity for free.



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    Because of purchase satisfaction.


That's true, but in general most people want the free one.



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    About six years ago I nearly tripled my consultancy rates, lost half my clients, and therefore still made more money for less work. If I'm that expensive I must be good! Also, it means when a client is being difficult I can say, "Well, we can keep discussing this; it is costing you £x per hour so it's fine by me."


That's a nice position to be in.



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    There's a small publishing house in the UK who have me on their mailing list. Every month they put out a free "story of the month" which they used to send via e-mail, so all I had to do was click on the message and read. Now they have gone to emails with a "download this pdf/epub/mobi" button that is probably better but they've lost me as a reader just because of the extra effort required to access the product. With marginal customer commitment those kinds of barriers can be lethal.


If it's one-click it might work, but if it's some stupid thing where you have to create an account and go in circles for an hour to make an account...