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That's irrelevant. If Rolls wanted to, they could very well send you a Chrysler, Chevy, and BMW with every Rolls purchase. If you don't like it, you don't hav
by Arizhel 9y ago
That's irrelevant. If Rolls wanted to, they could very well send you a Chrysler, Chevy, and BMW with every Rolls purchase. If you don't like it, you don't have to buy a Rolls.
No, I can't think of other luxury goods priced this way either, but again, it's irrelevant. They can price things however they want, and you can choose to take it or leave it. It's a luxury, nothing more, and if you don't like the terms, you're free to take your business elsewhere. If they want a weird business model like that, it's their right, and it seems to be working for them since there's so many suckers happily sending them money for this. Perhaps the truth is that the really high-end luxury goods (Rolls, Rolex, etc.) are smarter than the typical cable TV customer and wouldn't put up with that kind of BS.
- FussyZeus 9y ago> That's irrelevant. If Rolls wanted to, they could very well send you a Chrysler, Chevy, and BMW with every Rolls purchase. If you don't like it, you don't have to buy a Rolls. OK but now you're involving a free market which we've already established doesn't exist in terms of broadband providers in most places.
- Arizhel 9y agoWe're not talking about broadband here, we're talking about cable TV. Cable TV isn't that much of a free market, admittedly, but it does have competition: satellite TV (Dish, DirecTV) and internet programming (Hulu etc.). But most importantly to my argument, cable TV (unlike broadband internet) is purely a luxury. You don't need to watch TV, and countless people do just fine without it, even in societies where it's commonplace, and in fact lots of news articles are discussing people who are voluntarily giving it up ("cutting the cord") because they're spending their free time with other pursuits such as internet usage.