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From: ianf@nada.kth.se (Ian Feldman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Developers conference
Summary: The ...hmm... el cheapo solution
Message-ID: <1990Apr7.081603.6972@nada.kth.se>
Date: 7 Apr 90 08:16:03 GMT
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Reply-To: ianf@kth.se (Ian Feldman)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <35728@cci632.UUCP> ph@cci632.UUCP (Pete Hoch) writes:
>Avi Rappoport writes:
>
>> ...make the first attendee a reduced price and sock it to the second,
>> third, etc.  That way everyone could send at least one person.
>
> This is a great idea!!!!  For example Apple could charge $500 for the first
> attendee from a company, $1500 for the second and $2000 for the third, fourth
> etc.  It's kind of like a progressive tax.  The lower class, (one attendee)
> gets a break.  The middle class, (two attendees) have the same cost as before
> And the upper crust really gets hit for sending more than two people, but
> then they have the money, right?

  I eouldn't know about its greatness.  It is certainly contrary to all
  the common economic wisdom -- the "buy one, get one free" principle while
  simultaneously succeding in being both undemocratic AND contrary to
  Apple's interest to attract high-quality, _motivated_ attendees, rather
  than the I-can-afford-the-$500 crowd.  Ie, having a certain threshold
  automatically weeds out wheat from chaff...

--Ian Feldman / ianf@nada.kth.se  ||  uunet!nada.kth.se!ianf / The "I had the
        bug narrowed down to a subrutine and then I lost all interest" hacker