• FaceDeer
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    116 months ago

    It’s basic economics. As prices rise sales drop, you just need to adjust to find the point of maximum profit. Since market information isn’t perfectly known you’ll occasionally see overshoots like this.

    • ares35
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      126 months ago

      ya. basically they hit that ‘tipping point’ where the increased profit margins from the higher prices is no longer keeping up with the decrease in sales volume resulting from those ever-increasing prices.

    • @[email protected]
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      86 months ago

      Yes, but once you progress beyond demand elasticity and possibility frontiers, you learn about how externalities and marketing distort the tidy micro/macroeconomic theories.

      “Perfect information” and “rational self interest” are the two biggest inbuilt crutches to economic theory, and capitalism evolves its profit-taking modalities daily. If marketing can convince consumers that an objectively inferior brand is equal or better to the competition, then the price inelasticity raises dramatically

    • @[email protected]
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      56 months ago

      Yep, been waiting to see this adjustment. Problem for them is they changed our habits with the high prices. That’s not easily undone with a price drop. People get a bad taste in their mouth, they don’t come back.