There's always something to fix

There are a number of interesting blogs that I have found myself posting comments and/or trackbacks. Those have resulted some interesting debates which become separate items that I'd like to follow and keep up on.  I'm using an RSS reader vs. one at a time.

Seems like a great feature for a reader.

Comments

[hugh macleod]

Hey, thanks for adding your great comment on gapingvoid:

http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/001489.html

My own two cents (which I'll blog about later): if demand exceeds 200 shirts per design, like I said, when they're gone, they're gone. I'll just make more designs available.

If you give people an incentive to act quickly ("There are only 200 in the world, and they'll be sold out in 3 days"), they act quickly. If you give people an incentive to delay ("Come back next year when they'll be 75% less") they delay.

I'm not bothered about counterfeits. All the fake Beanie Babies did was drive the price of real Beanie Babies sky high. The fakes became first-class adverts for the real thing, fully funded by third parties. Indirect marketing at its best.

And what about secondary markets possibly developing? What if demand for shirts were such that anybody who owned a shirt could pretty much be guaranteed to sell it at a high profit on E-Bay?

Then we're talking microtulipmania.

So I suppose what I would need then are just 200 out of 100-odd-thousand gapingvoid readers to help me create this secondary market... it's one business model, anyway.