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From: ph@cci632.UUCP (Pete Hoch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Developers conference
Message-ID: <35861@cci632.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 90 20:17:08 GMT
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ianf@nada.kth.se (Ian Feldman) writes:
: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, 
:> ...
:
:  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...

Sorry,  I don't know where my head was.  I guess I have been working on
my taxes too long and started to think that the tax system made economic
sence instead of economic disaster.  I now will completely reverse myself
and sugest that the first attendee be charged $2000, and then charge $1000
for the next four attendees.  Four $5000 your company can send up to
ten people.  How is that for a sale??

Pete Hoch