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Reminds me of Roller Coaster Tycoon, the customers say stuff like "This park is a really good value" and you bump your entrance fee until they stop saying it.
by kingkilr 16y ago
Reminds me of Roller Coaster Tycoon, the customers say stuff like "This park is a really good value" and you bump your entrance fee until they stop saying it. Except in the real world people rarely tell you your your product is too cheap.
- JangoSteve 16y agoI only somewhat agree. There are ways your users tell you your product is too cheap, without actually having to tell you. One good indicator is when you have a lot of people signing up, and then not using it, in which case your product is so underpriced that it attracts indifference.
- btilly 16y agoI've seen companies sign up for a $3K/month product, then not use it for 6 months. Large companies do silly things.
- JangoSteve 16y agoSure I've seen it too, but I'm referring to trends here.
- Pahalial 16y agoI've seen multi-$100k investments go unused for so long as to become worthless, most notably in the form of enterprise-scale battery backups which needed to be used within X months and were still on the original shipping pallets 2 years later. I think the point of this article can only really be taken as applying to the consumer web; while its point might ring true for enterprise customers, they're a much more murky environment in general.
- zepolen 16y agoIn the real world people will rarely tell you that they are going to a competitor if you don't stop raising your prices.