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Sidious Lord
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Posted - 2012.06.26 00:16:00 -
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Kudos to you, Tippia, for bothering with trying time and again to explain how everything connects together in this case. The thread was already "won" with the key chain analogy, yet people keep coming back like a stubborn and spoiled child that refuses to accept no for an answer. I'm amazed that this thread has actually reached six pages.
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Posted - 2012.06.26 00:48:00 -
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Ranger 1 wrote:Rikula wrote:
False. When we dig iron ore out of the ground in Australia, it doesn't come stamped with "$130 per metric tonne". It doesn't come with *any* price. Its price is determined, like with everything else, by supply and demand (to put it simply). The Ishukone shirt had a HIGHER price prior to NEX release, and now has a LOWER price.
Which is fine since he didn't pay anything for it.
^ This.
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Posted - 2012.06.26 00:57:00 -
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Rikula wrote:Even in bundles like this, people value so-called "freebies". Suppose you were to purchase a bundle of 5 dvd's, which came free with a sixth specific dvd. You don't therefore value the sixth dvd as being zero. You might jump onto ebay, and sell it for maybe half or a quarter of its normal retail price. It still has a value to you and to others, and its price is not zero.
You confuse the terms "value" and "price" here. The price is in fact zero, but no one have ever claimed that the value is zero. Regarding your latest analogy: you are wrong again. The price of the sixth DVD is zero, but the value is indeed higher as he can sell it on eBay. Just as OP could sell his shirt (which had the price tag of zero when he got it in the first place) on "eBay" if he wanted to.
Back to the DVD example: To acquire the sixth DVD, you don't pay a penny. You could always say, "no, I don't want six DVD's, five is enough", but you'd still have to pay the same price as you would have with the sixth one included. In other words: the price is zero. He wouldn't have gotten a discount if he had said no to the extra DVD. Why take it? Well, it's free, and you could possibly make money off it by selling it...
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Posted - 2012.06.27 13:51:00 -
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Alaura Aquila wrote:Dheeradj Esil wrote:So.... OP bought 13 PLEX, and got a free shirt with it..... Now the shirt is released to the general public, and he complains that he didn't cash it in earlier?
Is that what this is about?
I can confirm this. It is still a miracle that this threads goes on...
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Posted - 2012.06.27 14:53:00 -
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Freezehunter wrote:Don't ***** at CCP because you were ******** enough to buy a monocle for 70 dollars and virtual clothes for 20 dollars each.
Thanks.
Completely irrelevant for this thread. Please read thread (or at least the first page) before posting.
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Posted - 2012.06.27 20:11:00 -
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Norrin Ellis wrote:
You completely ignore the fact that you were buying 13 PLEX and continue to insist that you made the purchase exclusively because CCP was offering the shirt. That is, you essentially deny that the PLEX had any value to you at all.
No, he is hiding something vital from us. Something that might explain his relentless raging: he put all his PLEXes into the cargohold of his noobship, forgot he was in low sec, undocked and got ganked.
So, while he in theory got 13x game time from his purchase, in reality he only ended up with the shirt for his hard earned $260...
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