On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 11:29, Matt W. wrote: > From: "Bryan Murdock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Funny, a lot of people are starting to notice that a lot of business > > have one price for USA, and another much lower price for the same item > > in other countries. Microsoft is trying to sell its software for way > > less than it does here in Asian countries. Regionalized DVD's, the > > below article mentions prescription drugs. What next? How long will > > consumers in the global economy put up with it? Very interesting. > > I don't view it as much of a scam. They are different markets with very > different members and different demand. I don't think our Global Market is > really all that close; think of Bryan's salary compaired to that of an Asian > farmer. This is why kids in San Francisco aren't complaining too much cuz I > pay $2 less for my Lucky Charms in Denver. > > Matt W. > > But I think what we are seeing is that, though you might never buy Lucky Charms at Amazon.com, movies, books, and a number of other products you might. That is where the market becomes global quickly, and people who produce things like DVD's try to place artificial regionalization on their products, or publisher try to sell books at Amazon.uk for a lower price than they do on Amazon.com, to enforce the old seperate markets. People just don't want to adjust their business models to account for new technology and what it enables their customers to do. How long are people going to tolerate that? As our economy becomes more globalized is it going to lower prices everywhere? Is it going to lower salaries everywhere? What does this have to do with Unix? Not much. I'll stop.
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