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Hmm, I don't feel like your conclusion follows from your premises. > I don't know if I believe the price goes up that much because of the fear of [an overly ze

Hmm, I don't feel like your conclusion follows from your premises. > I don't know if I believe the price goes up that much because of the fear of [an overly zealous wedding party member] > But for a wedding cake, people want 5 9's. They want enterprise Cake, that's always available and exactly as they expected. I see those two things as related, I guess. Nobody knows the difference between 2 9's and 5 9's until the service goes down or something goes unexpectedly. > If I was working with a vendor, a plain-old regular cake with 2 9's availability would be fine for me. Unfortunately for the vendor, since you're not ever going to be a repeat customer they have no idea which type of customer you are and have to assume you want 5 9's even if you're saying otherwise - or that you want 5 9's for the 2 9's price. The opposite of a lemon market, I suppose (a peach market?). Look at it from their perspective: The worst case scenario is they give you the 2 9's price but you expect the 5 9's and complain loudly when you don't get that.

JMTQp8lwXL 8y ago
Cake is a commodity. I don't have to buy it from a vendor that specializes specifically in wedding cakes. I should have set the premise up a little better: I can go to my local supermarket (2 9s) and order several cakes of different sizes, and get a fancy serving tray, to get the multi-tiered cake appearance that's classically what I think of, when I think wedding cake. If my supermarket doesn't give me exactly what I want, nobody would really care, since most people don't go to supermarkets to by Enterprise Cake. They go with a more specialized vendor (5 9s).
- wgerard 8y ago
  I still don't think this follows. You can go to a specialized cake vendor and still get a 2 9s cake - many people do, in fact, for special non-wedding events (for, say, a 60th birthday). That cake will still be significantly less expensive than if you tell the specialized cake vendor it's for a wedding. Enterprise cake comes in many flavors :).

JMTQp8lwXL 8y ago

Cake is a commodity. I don't have to buy it from a vendor that specializes specifically in wedding cakes. I should have set the premise up a little better: I can go to my local supermarket (2 9s) and order several cakes of different sizes, and get a fancy serving tray, to get the multi-tiered cake appearance that's classically what I think of, when I think wedding cake. If my supermarket doesn't give me exactly what I want, nobody would really care, since most people don't go to supermarkets to by Enterprise Cake. They go with a more specialized vendor (5 9s).

wgerard 8y ago
I still don't think this follows. You can go to a specialized cake vendor and still get a 2 9s cake - many people do, in fact, for special non-wedding events (for, say, a 60th birthday). That cake will still be significantly less expensive than if you tell the specialized cake vendor it's for a wedding. Enterprise cake comes in many flavors :).