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I recall a talk by Jeff Bezos regarding starting the 'Prime' business model. He said something like: 'What do you do about people who abuse the all you can eat
by legrande 5y ago
I recall a talk by Jeff Bezos regarding starting the 'Prime' business model. He said something like: 'What do you do about people who abuse the all you can eat option?'.
My take is that there will always be a few outliers who take advantage of the 'all you can eat' model. But I imagine most of the time they are just outliers and those people don't affect a business' bottom line that much.
If anything such a model is ethical if it means people can save money. I mean, the business still gets to make money, just a little differently than other businesses.
- jjeaff 5y agoMaybe they raised their prices, but I haven't seen much room for abusing the Prime model. The shipping cost is obviously baked into the price of the item in most cases.
- rexf 5y agoyes, Amazon doesn't have the cheapest prices. Their (Prime) shipping is generally the fastest
- lordnacho 5y agoExactly the same as with buffet restaurants. It takes quite the stomach for the restaurant to lose money on someone, so it's not a big deal if a few people manage to do it.
- convolvatron 5y agoyou want to have at least some of that going on visibly to emphasize what an absolute steal it is