kao16
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Joined: 4/10/2000 From: Christchurch, New Zealand Status: offline
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Originally posted by TheZel:
WHy would you not try to sell as many MC's as possible. After spending all that time doing development, wouldn't you want to convert that work to $$$$ as much as possible? I know of people who are jumping on the SPWAW bandwagon all the time, and might want to buy MC1 next month, next year. Why deny them sending you money for that product??
Simple economics and the marginal cost/benefit of producing/selling that extra unit/CD.
Say you do a run produciing 5,000 CD's,
Initial orders etc take 3,000-4,500,
Do you advise people that there are only 500 left or do you continue taking orders - remembering that the minimum economic production run is say 1,000 units?
Because those initial 3,000-4,500 are the easy, quick orders any orders over 5,000 will take time to arrive. This leaves you with the choice of..
1) waiting until you have the extra 1,000 orders before commiting to another production run (real long wait for first people in and judging by coments as people wait for pre-ordered MCNA cd's... not something that is going to be popular with the punters), or
2) Order a production run and store the CD's until they are sold... so, how many of you have bought cheap "remainder" software at 10-20% of original price (storage costs...)
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