Posted by Neredbojias on 08/25/05 00:28

With neither quill nor qualm, Ed Jay quothed:

> Neredbojias <neredbojias@neredbojias.com> wrote:
>
> >With neither quill nor qualm, Ed Jay quothed:
> >
> >> Neredbojias <neredbojias@neredbojias.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> >With neither quill nor qualm, Tina - AxisHOST, Inc. quothed:
> >> >
> >> >> Actually, I've had axishost.com for quite awhile. I've decided to focus on
> >> >> resellers, higher-needs hosting and managed servers - rather than budget
> >> >> hosting so much, in order to be able to provide the kind of quality service
> >> >> that I want to offer. Its hard to be the best when customers pay $2 a
> >> >> month and it costs $10 an hour for decent support staff.
> >> >>
> >> >> I do miss running affordablehost though...terribly.
> >> >
> >> >Why don't you start a new, high-end, cream-of-the-crop small-user
> >> >service? Charge whatever and call it "unaffordablehost.com". I'll bet
> >> >you the bottom of my britches that you'd get more than a few clients.
> >>
> >> You're absolutely right. I once owned a company that produced the highest
> >> priced widget in its market. Three-times the cost of others and it wasn't
> >> much better than the best of the rest. I advertised using the line, "When
> >> other widgets are a dime a dozen, ours costs an arm and a leg!" We
> >> couldn't keep up with demand. :-)
> >
> >It's a "psycho-logical" thing. People want "The Best" and are willing to
> >pay for it (-if it's at all affordable) just to be smug in the knowledge
> >that they have "The Best" and everybody else's thingy is inferior to
> >their own. A good entrepreneur can interpret his market and advantage
> >himself of its opportunities intuitively.
>
> Yes, and people also want bragging rights about how much they can afford
> to pay. And then, there's always the [fallacious] thought that 'things'
> are worth the price one pays for them.
>
> I've seen many examples of 'things' not selling at a reasonable price, but
> when the price is arbitrarily increased to a seemingly unreasonable level,
> buyers flock to the table.
>
> BTW, I employed the 'arm and leg' line out of defense. I felt that it
> was/is important to circumvent people from saying, "It costs too much." I
> reasoned that by saying it myself, it would cut them off at the knees. It
> worked. :-)

It seems you have a great understanding of the marketplace. Now let me
ask this question. What are your thoughts on ebay? I, myself, have
never logged into ebay because it seems to me that the concept is very
much to the purchaser's disadvantage. Ie, many buyers:one product (-per
item). In it's short history, ebay appears to have been very popular
but that could very well be a fad, the appeal of something new and
different.

Anyway, I don't think my position will change on this issue for the
simple reason that, to me, ebay is nothing more than a "legitimate
scam", -an "auction for the masses", a commercial balm for the egos of
those who embrace it in rather the same way we have been discussing
enterprise otherwise.

--
Neredbojias
Contrary to popular belief, it is believable.

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