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- From: irving@Happy-Man.com (Irving_Wolfe)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace
- Subject: Re: Athena Design Announces Mesa Educational Pricing
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.030724.1199@Happy-Man.com>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 03:07:24 GMT
- References: <59739@mimsy.umd.edu> <1992Aug18.142949.2013@menudo.uh.edu>
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- In <1992Aug18.142949.2013@menudo.uh.edu> sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) writes:
-
- >If we allow pricing information (commerce) to be posted along with product
- >announcements (information), competitors will eventually attempt to "undercut"
- >each other by announcing their products at a lower price.
-
- I can't think of anything nicer. Both the commercial users and the
- non-commercial users will benefit _greatly_ from this competition
- if it in fact occurs. However, I suspect Mr. Sears is as poor in
- his predictive powers as he is in his sense of what's good for tha
- world, and this intense price competition that would so help all of
- us will never materialize.
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