Posted by Tina - AxisHOST, Inc. on 08/25/05 05:20

"Neredbojias" <neredbojias@neredbojias.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1d76945f4ed2866498979e@news.intergate.com...
> 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.

I bought a whole kitchen full of brand new appliances on eBay, at a price
that couldn't be beat around here and with very little effort on my part. I
saved over $2000. If I got scammed...I wish I'd get taken advantage of more
often.

--Tina

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