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  • Subject: Re: Cause and Effect Reversed?
  • From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 21:04:40 -0500

From: Pete Hall <pbhall@execpc.com>
> At 10:10 09/28/2000 , Leif Svalgaard wrote:
> >the potential market depends on the final price, so you have an infinite
> >regress here.
> >Anyway, that is NOT how mass-market software is priced.
>
> It's not really all that mysterious, although it does intuitively seem
backward
<snip>
> IOW, there is a finite price that will yield a maximum profit, and that
determines
> the size of your production run.

so when you have sold the number of units that maximizes your profit, i.e.
when your production run is exhausted, you stop selling your product,
even if you have customers begging for more.

get real.



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