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<blockquote data-quote="jasamcarl" data-source="post: 987667" data-attributes="member: 1251">I wasn't being condescending. You didn't distinguish the two different degrees of discounting, and you also framed it as 'rewarding' regular customers, when in fact it is punishing them relative to pure competitive type of discounting; you didn't seem to consider the implied benefit to you. You also indicated that you thought i was speaking of a play club versus store arrangement, when i was actually referring to discriminating amongst customers assuming one facility. And i wasn't advocating 'paperthin margins', I was theorizing how margins can be maintained in the face of price wars.And I noted the limitations of this method for the small scale of gaming stores. Being this rigorous probably simply isn't worth it. But some of your reasons seemed to miss the point, so...I apologize. I should have been more careful with my wording. I never thought of what i was saying as anything more than conjecture. Sorry you took it personally. Frankly though, i don't think many gaming store owners have an appreciation for a lot of this theory, which contributes as much to their obsolecence as anything. Price discrimination is a good starting point for considering the inevitable transition from gaming store to gaming center.I also have a History B.A. , if that helps. And graduate school in the Spring. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="jasamcarl, post: 987667, member: 1251"] I wasn't being condescending. You didn't distinguish the two different degrees of discounting, and you also framed it as 'rewarding' regular customers, when in fact it is punishing them relative to pure competitive type of discounting; you didn't seem to consider the implied benefit to you. You also indicated that you thought i was speaking of a play club versus store arrangement, when i was actually referring to discriminating amongst customers assuming one facility. And i wasn't advocating 'paperthin margins', I was theorizing how margins can be maintained in the face of price wars. And I noted the limitations of this method for the small scale of gaming stores. Being this rigorous probably simply isn't worth it. But some of your reasons seemed to miss the point, so... I apologize. I should have been more careful with my wording. I never thought of what i was saying as anything more than conjecture. Sorry you took it personally. Frankly though, i don't think many gaming store owners have an appreciation for a lot of this theory, which contributes as much to their obsolecence as anything. Price discrimination is a good starting point for considering the inevitable transition from gaming store to gaming center. I also have a History B.A. , if that helps. And graduate school in the Spring. ;) [/QUOTE]

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