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This is a story that actually happened to me locally, involving off road "product", it was so ludicrous i had to share it.
I have changed the specifics to be a pizza place analogy.
I have been "buying pizza" for 8 years from various places locally, and nationally.
I walk into a local pizza place and say
Me: "i'd like to buy your pizza, it says $120.00. Is that per pizza? . ."
Owner: "we have 1 pizza, everyone pays $120.00, currently 3 people are here so it's split 3 ways, but you will make it be split 4 ways now"
Me: "so $120.00 buys 1/4 pizza?"
Owner: "for now, but if someone else walks in, and pays $120.00 we'll come to your table and take part from you to make it 1/5, and give the new guy that so he gets 1/5 too, and so on and so on as many people come in until we close."
Me: "is there any way that i could guarantee the amount i would get after buying it? The other pizza places i eat at either charge per piece, or sell me the whole pizza."
Owner: "we only make one pizza per day"
Me: "maybe charge a specific price, and limit the number of customers to that one pizza, so that everyone gets a specified amount? Or at least Maybe a lower price? your pizza is 10x more expensive than I've ever paid. . .and that's IF you gave me the entire thing"
Owner: *yelling "you're crazy, you're ridiculous to suggest i limit my number of customers! , you have ridiculous notions of how pizza should be sold. . ."
Me: well i really need at least one piece of pizza right now, if i pay you the $120, will you guarantee that i get at least one piece of pizza? "
"If that's how you're going to be, i don't want to do business with you! Get out!"
This literally happened with the owner of a locally based off-road company. I used pizza because a friend of mine that i told this to said "that's stupid, if it was a pizza nobody would ever do that"
If this were any product you've ever seen or heard of on therangerstation. Would you think a business charging in such a way would be justified?
I have changed the specifics to be a pizza place analogy.
I have been "buying pizza" for 8 years from various places locally, and nationally.
I walk into a local pizza place and say
Me: "i'd like to buy your pizza, it says $120.00. Is that per pizza? . ."
Owner: "we have 1 pizza, everyone pays $120.00, currently 3 people are here so it's split 3 ways, but you will make it be split 4 ways now"
Me: "so $120.00 buys 1/4 pizza?"
Owner: "for now, but if someone else walks in, and pays $120.00 we'll come to your table and take part from you to make it 1/5, and give the new guy that so he gets 1/5 too, and so on and so on as many people come in until we close."
Me: "is there any way that i could guarantee the amount i would get after buying it? The other pizza places i eat at either charge per piece, or sell me the whole pizza."
Owner: "we only make one pizza per day"
Me: "maybe charge a specific price, and limit the number of customers to that one pizza, so that everyone gets a specified amount? Or at least Maybe a lower price? your pizza is 10x more expensive than I've ever paid. . .and that's IF you gave me the entire thing"
Owner: *yelling "you're crazy, you're ridiculous to suggest i limit my number of customers! , you have ridiculous notions of how pizza should be sold. . ."
Me: well i really need at least one piece of pizza right now, if i pay you the $120, will you guarantee that i get at least one piece of pizza? "
"If that's how you're going to be, i don't want to do business with you! Get out!"
This literally happened with the owner of a locally based off-road company. I used pizza because a friend of mine that i told this to said "that's stupid, if it was a pizza nobody would ever do that"
If this were any product you've ever seen or heard of on therangerstation. Would you think a business charging in such a way would be justified?
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