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Let me clarify. At 6$ a month, I don't feel like I'm getting ripped off, even if it really doesn't cost them nearly that much to provide me the service. The t-s
by Qz 16y ago
Let me clarify. At 6$ a month, I don't feel like I'm getting ripped off, even if it really doesn't cost them nearly that much to provide me the service. The t-shirt I'm wearing costs maybe $1 in raw materials and manufacturing, but it sold for $20. I got it 50% off for 10$. Am I getting ripped off? Should $10 for a t-shirt not seem like a fair price?
- DanielStraight 16y agoIndeed. People today expect to get paid for their creativity and the value they provide to customers or businesses, but they still expect to pay based on raw material cost. You can't have it both ways. It's silly to think you should get paid based on value but pay others based on cost.
- isleyaardvark 16y agoYou might if you found out that people in other Western countries with similar costs-of-living could buy the same shirts for $1.50.
- roc 16y ago> "Let me clarify. At 6$ a month, I don't feel like I'm getting ripped off" But surely you can see where people who don't have full family plans have a completely different view of the issue?
- jessedhillon 16y ago> At 6$ a month, I don't feel like I'm getting ripped off OP's point was about consumer education. Have you considered that maybe you should feel like you're getting ripped off?
- Qz 16y agoI have. I'm not dogmatic about this. Part of my other point was that the comparisons in the link to why SMS is ridiculously overpriced, in which the cost of downloading songs via SMS is calculated to be in the millions of dollars, is that that's a bogus argument. If you're sending that many SMS's, get an unlimited plan. If your carrier doesn't have an unlimited plan, switch to one that does. Consumer education is fine, but there's also something to be said about consumer responsibility.