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<blockquote data-quote="Savant" data-source="post: 190168" data-attributes="member: 546108">Only, if the guys at the shop(s) &#039;all&#039; charge about the same, and there are some pissant morons with money to burn and paid that price ONCE.. the owners will tell people indefinately that teh charge is $25, regardless of if anyone else needs the measurement.. The owner sees it as $25 a shot, but doesn&#039;t realize that they aren&#039;t gonna get many sales like that, but at a much lower price, more people might be interested (at say $10).. Just because you get something once (or even once in a while) doesn&#039;t mean your &#039;price&#039; is the best or most advantagous.. you would have to do market studies and surveys and plot the supply/demand curve to find the best price to charge.. I&#039;ll promise the shop owners aren&#039;t doing that with dB measuring fees..Going elsewhere only works if there is a reasonable demand.. Nitche stuff like this doesn&#039;t allow the Free Market modle to work as intended since there are a VERY FEW (by comparison) people doing X thing in the area.. some places might only have 1 or 2 shops .. how does free market work there? on a local scale it can&#039;t.. Free Market also presumes intelligent consumers.. we all know that doesn&#039;t happen.. how else does one person pay $250 for a new woofer when someone else pays $75 for the EXACT SAME WOOFER...??//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif again with the friggin extremes.. no one expects &#039;all things&#039; to be done for &#039;free&#039;.. just more in keeping with the effort.. Time has a HUGE effect on that if you ask me.. if it&#039;s very unskilled and takes a very short time, asking more than a trivial price is .. well.. greedy as hell.. has nothing to do with markets or supply and demand.. You make it sound like if a shop starts to offer free dB testing that all their other business would be ignored and they wouldn&#039;t make any money, but you and I both know that there would be PRESCIOUS few people getting metered.. and the shop could easily tell people to come back when they aren&#039;t busy.. or, to disuade &#039;floods&#039; of people, charge a nominal fee (realistic for the effort, $25 for 5 mintues is NOT reasonable to me for unskilled uneducated effort)..Whatever.. There is no point talking to you.. You keep acting like you have a solid grasp of various concepts and spout off like an authority, which sounds good and all to those that don&#039;t know the real deal, but the bottom line is you keep talking out your *** with 1/2 statements and avoid issues.. and backpedal on your previous statemnts.. I&#039;m done responding to you in this thread..</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Savant, post: 190168, member: 546108"] Only, if the guys at the shop(s) 'all' charge about the same, and there are some pissant morons with money to burn and paid that price ONCE.. the owners will tell people indefinately that teh charge is $25, regardless of if anyone else needs the measurement.. The owner sees it as $25 a shot, but doesn't realize that they aren't gonna get many sales like that, but at a much lower price, more people might be interested (at say $10).. Just because you get something once (or even once in a while) doesn't mean your 'price' is the best or most advantagous.. you would have to do market studies and surveys and plot the supply/demand curve to find the best price to charge.. I'll promise the shop owners aren't doing that with dB measuring fees.. Going elsewhere only works if there is a reasonable demand.. Nitche stuff like this doesn't allow the Free Market modle to work as intended since there are a VERY FEW (by comparison) people doing X thing in the area.. some places might only have 1 or 2 shops .. how does free market work there? on a local scale it can't.. Free Market also presumes intelligent consumers.. we all know that doesn't happen.. how else does one person pay $250 for a new woofer when someone else pays $75 for the EXACT SAME WOOFER...?? [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif[/IMG] again with the friggin extremes.. no one expects 'all things' to be done for 'free'.. just more in keeping with the effort.. Time has a HUGE effect on that if you ask me.. if it's very unskilled and takes a very short time, asking more than a trivial price is .. well.. greedy as hell.. has nothing to do with markets or supply and demand.. You make it sound like if a shop starts to offer free dB testing that all their other business would be ignored and they wouldn't make any money, but you and I both know that there would be PRESCIOUS few people getting metered.. and the shop could easily tell people to come back when they aren't busy.. or, to disuade 'floods' of people, charge a nominal fee (realistic for the effort, $25 for 5 mintues is NOT reasonable to me for unskilled uneducated effort).. Whatever.. There is no point talking to you.. You keep acting like you have a solid grasp of various concepts and spout off like an authority, which sounds good and all to those that don't know the real deal, but the bottom line is you keep talking out your *** with 1/2 statements and avoid issues.. and backpedal on your previous statemnts.. I'm done responding to you in this thread.. [/QUOTE]

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