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> This is intended to make it possible to sell things at different prices in Mexico City and LA, which in turn makes it more viable to sell things in Mexico Cit
by haberman 14y ago
> This is intended to make it possible to sell things at different prices in Mexico City and LA, which in turn makes it more viable to sell things in Mexico City at all. You may not love it, but it's at least a rational system.
Thanks for this explanation, I've despised these anti-arbitrage region-coding-like rules for a while, but when you put it this way it at least makes some kind of sense.
- praptak 14y agoOf course it makes sense, every such rule has some rational intent. The intent here is market segmentation: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckies.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie... But my response to that kind of bullshit is as always: if you can make profit at price X in Mexico City and the importer can still make their profit after undercutting you in US, then you're just scalping your US customers. There should be no laws that help you do that.
- CJefferson 14y agoThat assumes zero fixed cost. Perhaps if you sold to all your customers at Mexico City prices, you would make a large loss.