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A mate of mine's consulting company offers a 10% discount on any work if the client buys them a plant, any plant, for the office. Apparently they've only had tw
by JimmyAustin 6y ago
A mate of mine's consulting company offers a 10% discount on any work if the client buys them a plant, any plant, for the office. Apparently they've only had two clients take them up on the offer.
- neolog 6y agoWhy do they offer that?
- s314159265358 6y agoBecause they want plants.
- pliny 6y agoYou can trade money for plants
- zelos 6y agoExplain how?
- antonvs 6y agoSomething to do with blockchain, I assume.
- prepend 6y agoNFT for physical objects is the new hotness. That way they can just demonstrate ownership of the plant instead of having to move it around.
- mckirk 6y agoTransparent OLED screens on window sills cycling through simulations of virtual plants, together with their NFT tags... I want the future back, we were promised hoverboards!
- prepend 6y agoNFT is revoked when physical plant dies.
- justinclift 6y agoSome plants are useful after they're cactus. ;)
- Gaelan 6y agoThanks, I audibly laughed.
- Spare_account 6y agoPlants can be exchanged for goods and services
- blackshaw 6y agoPress F2 to go into "Buy Mode", then you can buy houseplants with your Simoleons.
- onion2k 6y agoIt demonstrates that the client actually read the contract.
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoBrown M&M's clause, I like it.
- EveYoung 6y agoDoes it? If someone from legal reads the contract, why would they bother dealing with this gimmicky clause? The budget has already been approved and sending someone a plant might cost another 30min of their time they rather spent on doing their job.
- onion2k 6y ago"I can think of a hypothetical reason why you might be wrong in very specific circumstances, so I'll suggest that could be a reason why the general case is wrong" is such a dumb argument. Obviously there might be occasions where a client reads the clause and chooses to ignore it. Very rarely, someone in legal might decide to ignore the clause because they're a bit lazy and don't care about saving their employer some money. That isn't an argument against what I said though. Plus, if the budget has already been approved, someone didn't read the contract before signing it. That's the same as not reading it.
- EveYoung 6y ago
- athenot 6y agoI'm not them but I could see how, for some services, having a savvy client who pays attention to these details will result in a cheaper client to service. Perhaps that particular product/service costs more to deliver when clients are missing on some very elementary diligence.
- luxuryballs 6y agomemorable marketing engagement that you’d tell your friends about
- jjk166 6y agoOr at least random people on the internet
- prionassembly 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
- neolog 6y agoGood answer.