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Yeah, but if my marked up $15 thing you sell to someone else is crappy because of your handling, and now the customer associates my name with expensive, crappy
by supernova87a 6y ago
Yeah, but if my marked up $15 thing you sell to someone else is crappy because of your handling, and now the customer associates my name with expensive, crappy product, my brand has been spoiled by you.
- say_it_as_it_is 6y agoYou're presenting an issue that I agree with you about but unfortunately what you are arguing is a conflation of issues. The comment I am responding to is one that I've seen/heard in the context of courier services in that there is a profit extraction. I ask people to clarify but they never seem to do so. Instead, there's an echo chamber repeating what others have said without taking a moment to think about whether the argument is valid. What you are referring to isn't about profit extraction. It's about brands, reputation, distribution rights, etc. These are valid, separate concerns not related to the question I'm asking. The profit extraction argument is invalid until proven otherwise.
- curryst 6y agoAnd yet most people don't struggle to realize that when your UPS chucks your package at your house and it breaks, that's UPS' fault, not whoever you ordered from. This whole argument revolves around a very uncharitable assumption that people are incredibly stupid and incapable of comprehending that the creation of the food and the delivery of the food are handled by two different parties. If that's the case, the more important thing to do here is cut off the average person from any financial instruments. They're incapable of assessing a simple two party process, they're certainly incapable of accessing the stock market, and allowing them access is predatory. /s
- say_it_as_it_is 6y agoEither you make poor decisions on your own or pay someone to make poor, or deceptive decisions on your behalf. Pick your poison.