Rollback the Prices
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mcgeeb Gupte
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07-11-2006 00:06
From: Marti Marx VENEZUELA CARACAS $0.14
Secondly, your title reminds me of Walmart. This isn't walmart... the designers have the right to set prices at whatever they please, and you have the right to not buy them. Oh... and if you really want to get back at them...learn how to create content and then sell them at cheap prices!
*yawn*  I want gas from Venezuela |
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Sensual Casanova
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07-11-2006 00:08
From: Reitsuki Kojima <--- Didn't raise prices <--- Gas for 2.75, suck it  Ditto! |
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Marti Marx
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07-11-2006 00:10
From: mcgeeb Gupte I want gas from Venezuela LOL...don't tell Pat Robertson that! |
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Felix Uritsky
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07-11-2006 00:38
I didn't raise my prices either, in fact I lowered them in the midst of the value crisis. Therefore, I don't plan to lower them. However, I will be having a 10% off sale to celebrate my new HQ soon |
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Dana Bergson
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07-11-2006 00:42
From: Cow Hand Yes, prices were skyrocketing as the L$ fell. And now.... they have not been falling. Are you sure, we are talking about the same Second Life, I am living in? Maybe it is a virtual world called Third Life you are talking about? I am not aware of any shop or mall where prices have been raised systematically in the past months. There might have been a very few designers who did some raises, but the majority did nothing. For most of them it would be very tedious to change prices in many different locations for many different products anyway. In some markets prices have fallen in he last months. The average inworld price for fresh, flat, green, mature land for example fell drastically because of market pressures at the same time the value of the L$ (at the exchange) decreased. When the L$ was at 280, 1024sqm of land fresh from the auctions was easily sold at 6,800L$. When the L$ was at 330, you could buy the same land for 6,000L$. I would not call this "skyrocketing" exactly. If a comparison to a rocket is appropriate at all, it was more a failed launch.  |
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Rusholme Malone
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07-11-2006 04:59
From: Marti Marx UK TEESIDE $5.64 Ironic, when you consider that much of the UK's petrol comes from that area in the first place. Anyway, we all drive smaller cars (I do, anyway - a Ford Ka!) and buy petrol in litres. |
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Elgyfu Wishbringer
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07-11-2006 05:48
I also didn't put up any prices. And have not noticed anywhere that did.
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Reitsuki Kojima
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07-11-2006 06:18
From: Cow Hand Yes, prices were skyrocketing as the L$ fell. And now.... they have not been falling. Are you sure prices were skyrocketing? Are you sure they weren't doing nothing?
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Marla Truss
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07-11-2006 09:06
My prices have nothing to do with the exchange rate. My cost are all in Lindens so there is no reason to correlate it to the exchange rate, but more importantly, I set my prices to maximize my profit and for that, the exchange rate is irrelevant. Note also that my price is not based on the amount of work I put into the product. Development cost is a fixed cost I've already paid and therefore do not really come into the formula or maximizing my profit in the future.
So I try to set my price such that sales x price is the largest value. As I increase price, sales go down, as I decrease price, sales go up. So I have to find the sweet spot that maximizes the whole formula.
Perhaps those that raised their prices found that they had miscalculated the sweet spot originally. If so, why should they lower their prices once they found a better sweet spot? In a like manner, others kept their price (I didn't raise mine) believing they already had found the sweet spot.
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Karmianna Hartunian
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07-11-2006 09:13
From: Joy Honey Where are you that it's that cheap? (gasp! 2.75 is CHEAP in the US wtf is wrong with this world?) You want the log or short list? Eat a cookie and buy some gas and be happy. Karmi |
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Rusholme Malone
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07-11-2006 09:26
THIS IS A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
IT'S PETROL, NOT GAS
Gas goes in your cooker and petrol goes in your car.
kthxbye
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Reitsuki Kojima
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07-11-2006 09:28
From: Rusholme Malone THIS IS A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
IT'S PETROL, NOT GAS
Gas goes in your cooker and petrol goes in your car.
kthxbye THIS IS A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT NOT EVERYONE IS FROM EUROPESome of us use words in a different fashion from others. kthxbye
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Vivianne Draper
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07-11-2006 09:55
In most of the countries you note with high gas prices, those prices are not because of the price of crude but because of taxes. Those taxes, in many of those countries, pay for things like very good public transportation systems, socialized medicine and education -- benefits we do not enjoy in the US. Also many of the countries you mentioned are smaller or about the same size than many of our states. Quite frankly -- they just don't have the same distances to travel that we do -- hence the reliance on gas is not the same. From: Marti Marx First of all, I think it's rather humorous someone in the US complains about gas prices. UK TEESIDE $5.64 HONG KONG HONG KONG $5.62 UK MILFORD HAVEN $5.56 UK READING $5.56 UK NORWICH $5.54 GERMANY FRANKFURT $5.29 DENMARK COPENHAGEN $5.08 NORWAY STAVANGER $5.07 NORWAY OSLO $4.93 ITALY ROME $4.86 TURKEY ISTANBUL $4.85 PORTUGAL LISBON $4.80 KOREA SEOUL $4.71 SWITZERLAND GENEVA $4.56 KOREA KOJE/OKPO $4.53 AUSTRIA VIENNA $4.50 CROATIA ZAGREB $4.32 JAPAN TOKYO $3.84 Oh, and if you want lower prices.... you might try immigrating to: AUSTRALIA SYDNEY $2.63 CAMBODIA PHNOM PENH $2.57 TAIWAN TAIPEI $2.47 GEORGIA TBILISI $2.31 LAOS VIENTIANE $1.66 THAILAND BANGKOK $1.60 CHINA TIANJIN $1.54 CHINA SHANGHAI $1.48 RUSSIA MOSCOW $1.45 KAZAKHSTAN ALMATY $1.36 KAZAKHSTAN ATYRAU $1.35 TAJIKISTAN DUSHANBE $1.32 AZERBAIJAN BAKU $1.15 VENEZUELA CARACAS $0.14 I think it's pretty myopic to complain about $3 dollar a day gas... but we're American's, it's what we do! Secondly, your title reminds me of Walmart. This isn't walmart... the designers have the right to set prices at whatever they please, and you have the right to not buy them. Oh... and if you really want to get back at them...learn how to create content and then sell them at cheap prices! *yawn* |
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Vivianne Draper
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07-11-2006 09:58
I've pretty much stopped shopping at places that raised their prices and where I feel the price is too high. If you feel the price is too high, then you should do that too. If more people did that, perhaps shop owners wouldn't set their prices too high.
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Rusholme Malone
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07-11-2006 10:01
From: Reitsuki Kojima THIS IS A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
NOT EVERYONE IS FROM EUROPE
Some of us use words in a different fashion from others.
kthxbye What do you run your cooker on, then? |
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Reitsuki Kojima
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07-11-2006 10:03
From: Rusholme Malone What do you run your cooker on, then? What the hell is a cooker?
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Marla Truss
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07-11-2006 11:12
From: Vivianne Draper I've pretty much stopped shopping at places that raised their prices and where I feel the price is too high. If you feel the price is too high, then you should do that too. If more people did that, perhaps shop owners wouldn't set their prices too high. That's exactly how the system is suppose to work |
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Rusholme Malone
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07-11-2006 11:17
From: Reitsuki Kojima What the hell is a cooker? You put food in it and it cooks it, or you can put pans on top of it and it heats them up. Who are you, Glyn? |
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FlipperPA Peregrine
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07-11-2006 11:21
Okay, since I work in the industry, I guess I'll help out here. I'm also a dual citizen, US and UK, so I don't have an axe to grind, and we have clients from both countries as well. First off, PETROL is a slang word, short for PETROLEUM. Petroleum is often used to refer to a family of products, with gasoline being a more specific term for a distinct petroleum based product. Gasoline is a better term as it excludes other petroleum based products you wouldn't want to put in your automobile or lawnmower, such as heating oil, diesel fuel, propane and jet fuel. Natural gas is a completely different animal, and that's what powers your stove / oven / cooker / hot water heater. Natural gas and gasoline are inherently different, as one is a gas and the other, a liquid. A hot topic right now is ethanol, which instead of being refined from oil, is refined from various sources such as corn and beet sugar. Then there's the other kind of natural gas, but that's mostly methane. For more information, check out http://www.pei.org/Regards, -Flip
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Talon Lardner
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07-11-2006 11:22
From: Rusholme Malone What do you run your cooker on, then? Either Electric or Natural Gas... over here, there is Gas (short for Gasoline) and Natural Gas, the former's the liquid the latter's the gas. |
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Rusholme Malone
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07-11-2006 11:22
But Flip, absolutely none of that is going to stop me from having a random rant and a dig across the Atlantic. |
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stpaulsub Clio
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07-11-2006 11:26
From: Rusholme Malone What do you run your cooker on, then? Electricity! ohh BTW the actual product is Gasoline made from Petrolium. we use LP Gas to cook, as well as Natural Gas but we are able to decern the difference when someone says "I'm putting some gas in my car" and when they say "I'm cooking with gas!"
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Rusholme Malone
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07-11-2006 11:28
But you can also have your car converted to run on... gas. LPG, as opposed to what Yanks call petrol. |
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Reitsuki Kojima
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07-11-2006 11:31
From: Rusholme Malone You put food in it and it cooks it, or you can put pans on top of it and it heats them up. Who are you, Glyn?We call those stoves. -.- And mine runs on good old electric, thank you very much.
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I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offenses at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all; believe none of us.
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Gage Sterling
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07-11-2006 11:52
I purchased a Heart -Shaped Tub for 500 Lindens last month and have not unpacked it. If anyone wants it, I will roll back the price to 400 Lindens /invalid_link.htmlIM me in-world for it. |
