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I do not spend $5 on coffee, and it should be a bother if you do. Now, if you get a mega soy chai latte blah bullshit, then whatever. But black coffee? Really?
by Brushfire 18y ago
I do not spend $5 on coffee, and it should be a bother if you do.
Now, if you get a mega soy chai latte blah bullshit, then whatever. But black coffee? Really?
- Zev 18y agoThanks for nitpicking at the example I gave instead of answering my question. Very helpful :) Though, I feel like i need to defend my coffee drinking habits; Since when is there something special about a large iced latte at Starbucks or Dunkin' Donuts + tax when its hot out during the summer?
- Jakob 18y agoI spend 90 cents on coffee here in Italy. So this game has to bring me the joy of five coffees at once. Hardly doable. $5 is too much. I don’t understand why the author doesn’t try other pricing strategies.
- mmilenko 18y agoFor the umpteenth color matching bejeweled wannabe, $5 indeed is ridiculous. btw, here in Sudan I can shoot people for free. And they expect me to pay $60 for FPS games?
- barrkel 18y agohot out = pain; iced latte = relief. Where is the pain and where is the relief in TFA? And is it worth 5USD?
- Brushfire 18y agoI might be mistaken, but when I originally posted your edit wasnt there yet to clarify. To answer: $3 over $2 is a big leap on the internet. Clearly there is a huge barrier between free and paid. 99c or $1.99 have been somewhat standardized by the itunes store, but anything above that I think still has huge pushback from traditional web consumers unless they are receiving A - a service, or B - something physical in the mail. I'm not claiming it is rational, but neither is buying $5 in coffee, which I also dont do (per my post).
- Zev 18y agoFWIW, my edit had nothing to do with changing the point I was making. The only thing it did was say why I made the point I was trying to make.