House of Paine

bless all the beasts and fuckin price shop-ers

   yes
but for the ass 
who price compares
we'd all pay more ..


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now some of u know
my present station 
in the purgative spiral 
      is selling over priced
swedish mattresses 

       well needless to say
we get alot of


"wow that much eh?"

 but hey they can't find it for less..

                    not   anywhere

these particular
         swedes got a fixed price regime
                               goin for em

all over north amerika 

no shop can cut under
                         any other shop

thats in the dealer license....

but else where product wise
          thats not usually true 

usually theres
 posted or tag price dispersion

and often serious 
        price differentiation 
            or discrimination
                        (air line fares )

most household shoppers
can get a price brake by...
loookin around 
or better yet 
            calling around 

these gad -flies 
create not only bargains 
                     for themselves

but third party improvements
for the rest of uz 


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dealers not only cut prices 
one  by one
           to match
                the competition
(  new car dealers)

but actually lower posted prices

to catch a few more 
            "silent ' walk out
                         price shoppers

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how many price shoppers does a market need ?

to get at that shit 
 is obviously 
gonna take u
 into  pretty exact 
                   numbers

 dealer heads must be broken open entered 


they see price cmp 
and now 
  they get into trade offs here


elasticities enter into the algorithims 
         as they always must

 my posted price cuts 
may nicelly 
increase 
my unit sale 

but enough ? 

hey 13x 15 =  15x13
and 13x15 > 16x11

get me pal?

theres an unknown 
most often
          unknowable relationship 
operatin here 

 dealer pricing  
all comes down to 
             hidden price /quantity  functions  

happy or fatal 
these numerical  functions 
will play out  

dealers guess at them 

often call
their good moves  
a sixth sense 
not 
    dumb luck 

and their bad ones
        " a roll of the dice "

but 

(except 
under fairly unreasonable
shopper/dealer 
       conditions)


                   this should mean
                               we amateur
                                we "i'll take yer word for it "
                                                   shop-ers
                                      all do a little better

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hey these price hornets
buzzin all around
if they produce
  lower posted prices.....

bravo !

ithey're given 
              a free ride 
  to  the rest of us 


all of  us
    "in general 
              first stop  i buy  it " 
                                         rubes