MrShankles

Maybe the 30 day decrease in profit would be worth the additional units sold later (possibly at a slightly elevated price), due to the marketing of a perceived "deal".

I guess there's a lot of variables that could come into play (type of product, inventory, how many units need to sell over a time period to break even, etc), but it doesn't seem implausible, so much as it does dependent. But idk, I still can't figure out how the fuck magnets work, let alone accounting

Why are you not?

What's up with this product price of $99 for a "re-usable straw" that listed near the beginning for me

It's list price is $99,999 with an average of $68,267.48?! I obviously wouldn't be purchasing from that vendor for many reasons; but how easy is it to manipulate prices for a website like this? Or maybe it's a vendor that's trying to make the website seem useless? Or just a one-off?

Idk, it caught my eye right off the bat though lol

I kinda assumed it would still be "striked through", or maybe "stricken through" because of the typographic term "strikethrough". But "struck through" also seems like it could be correct

I'ma need an expert typographical linguist to weigh-in on this matter. The world needs an answer

So if you raise the price 31 days prior, and then put the discount on, you should still be good to squeeze more profit!

I lurked on the reddit app for a year or more before I started contributing. One of the first things I learned about 'internet forums', is that you lurk first, until you get a feel for the community. I began contributing more because the 3rd party app I started using had me more engaged; which meant that reddit gained more content

But Reddit made the API changes for 3rd party apps unsustainable, to push people toward their own ad revenue. They assume that they're too important to fail, and that the loss of users/content was worth the squeeze of those who didn't know how to leave. A standard cost-risk scenario. It's a short-term goal to try and carve out a piece of the centralized internet that the big corps envision. A move toward trying to win at monopoly

The "forum" is a relationship between "user contribution" and the host's 'personal time, money, effort'... a personal cost-risk for anyone that hosts. Is it worth my time? Do I enjoy what I'm hosting?

When the goal becomes so obviously "increase host revenue", without increasing user experience; you create an imbalance.

We all lurk online until we find something we wanna talk about. Reddit was trying to use (is using) their influence to increase profit for themselves, and (the way in which they chose to do so) actively decreasing user experience. The 'host' only gave a shit about themselves and decided that user-created content was a 'benefit' of being there, rather than the reason.

Lurkers are half of the equation. Lurkers often become contributors when they enjoy the community. Contributors bring more lurkers. That's kind of how the balance works

Reddit feels they can do without the lurkers who refuse to use their app, while simultaneously increasing ad revenue. And they'll be fine financially in the same way Facebook is... clinging to the smallest user-base that makes them the most profit, while slowly becoming irrelevant.

Because contributors will move on eventually, and so will the lurkers.

Case-in-point... my comment. I'm a lurker, until I'm not.

It's more the fact that it wasn't an obvious fee. I can deal with checking-in with a phone, but it would've been nice if it had been more obvious that there was a fee if I didn't. Live and learn

I saw it in Louisiana. For a few months, my high-school cafeteria was giving us milk in a bag. Like individual-size bags that you poked a straw into. I was very confused the first time I saw it

I was charged a fee for checking-in with the person at the counter, instead of checking-in using their website or app. It's deliberately scummy

Boomers, Zoomers and Millenials just collectively ruining everything. And don't think I forgot about those Gen X-ers or Silent Gen bastards. Generations of people just ruining everything, from regular-ass etiquette, all the way to reddiquette too. Fucking generationals! Can't have anything nice without some generation coming around and being it's downfall. 😤

I follow one for news articles. I don't need nor want the comments. I also follow several news communities from lemmy; just a way for me to aggregate.

Have you charged your phone yet?