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>Personally, i disagree that all commodity businesses need to be that way. Higher quality and lower prices (/especially/ lower prices) are marketing in and of t
by nevinera 16y ago
>Personally, i disagree that all commodity businesses need to be that way. Higher quality and lower prices (/especially/ lower prices) are marketing in and of themselves.
If that's true, it's not a commodity business.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity
- lsc 16y agoFrom your wikipedia link: "There is a spectrum of commodification, rather than a binary distinction of "commodity versus differentiable product"."
- nevinera 16y agoSo your argument could have been phrased 'Personally, i disagree that all commodity businesses are really commodity businesses'? What you were actually challenging was his characterization of domain registration as a commodity business; I don't disagree with you there, I just wanted your point clarified.
- lsc 16y ago>So your argument could have been phrased 'Personally, i disagree that all commodity businesses are really commodity businesses'? Well, no. It's a continuum, rather than a black and white thing. I wrote a long argument then edited it back to the wikipedia quote, as that mostly sums things up. My business is more 'commodity' I think, than slicehost, mostly because of the marketing angles we take. Obviously, the market for a certain grade of steel is far more of a commodity, though I suspect that if I knew more about that market, I'd find it was less than an absolute commodity.