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Well, popcorn in a movie theater also costs 10x more than it should, because they have you as a captive audience. And it doesn't help that the price is basical
by supernova87a 7y ago
Well, popcorn in a movie theater also costs 10x more than it should, because they have you as a captive audience.
And it doesn't help that the price is basically opaque and paid for by insurance, for a person who doesn't care about the price at that moment.
It's a ridiculous system.
- ceejayoz 7y agoI get the price of the popcorn up front, and I don’t die if I skip it.
- altmind 7y agoMovie theater does not give you the popcorn and tell you the price a week after. Also, you can say no to the popcorn in a movie theater; you cannot control the fine details of your treatment.
- blisterpeanuts 7y agoA movie just isn't the same without popcorn :) And you're a captive audience; they don't allow you to bring in your own supply.
- salawat 7y agoThis is why I've considered and End-Server License Agreement. In providing service to me as a User, yada-yada-yada yada. If I actually went through the trouble of formally writing one up, and spreading it far and wide on the winds, and could actually get a significant portion of the population serving it in instances of predatory policy/pricing, and refusing the product such that a meaningful impact was made on service provider's bottom line, I've often wondered whether or not an equilibrium could finally be established where businesses stopped looking at customers who don't complain as people not yet sufficiently fleeced.