A great story for those us of who know what it's like to deal with retail retards.

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Originally Posted by sleeveboy

It's really hard to argue on the Internet with someone who has no understanding of logic.

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The same could be said for someone who doesn't know anything outside of a text book.

I regret posting my story about explaining supply/demand to dumbass customers.

It's robbed me of a potentially cool thread with lots of great 'retail retard' stories. :cry:

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Originally Posted by The_Meach

I regret posting my story about explaining supply/demand to dumbass customers.

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Especially if you're forced to explain it to dumbass posters.

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

Especially if you're forced to explain it to dumbass posters.

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God you are an arragant asshole. A person takes one Econ class and they know everything about business. Why dont you change majors, apparently you're a wiz at this shit.

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Originally Posted by IronPlant

God you are an arragant asshole. A person takes one Econ class and they know everything about business. Why dont you change majors, apparently you're a wiz at this shit.

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One person doesnt bother to study shit, doesnt listen to anything anybody says, thinks they know everything, and then calls another person arrogant. Unbelievable.

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Originally Posted by IronPlant

The same could be said for someone who doesn't know anything outside of a text book.

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"Alright leeches, I want you all to meet our newest writer, Abraham Simpson. He's got something you couldn't get at your fancy schools...REAL LIFE EXPERIENCE!"

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

doesnt listen to anything anybody says, thinks they know everything, and then calls another person arrogant. Unbelievable.

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I admitted that it does have to do with suply in demand, and I have never acted like I know everything on the issue. You're the one who refuses to yeild at all that your over simplified concepts are a tad off and not the only option for a business.

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Originally Posted by IronPlant

I admitted that it does have to do with suply in demand, and I have never acted like I know everything on the issue. You're the one who refuses to yeild at all that your over simplified concepts are a tad off and not the only option for a business.

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Welcome to capitalism. :)

And you fail to understand that "sells, specials, freebies, and lower prices, bad politics, area manapolies, and complete bullshit" are just manipulations of these basic concepts. "sells", freebies, specials, and lower prices can be thrown into the lot of raising demand, and bad politics, area "manapolies", and complete bullshit can be thrown into affecting supply.

You do a lot of this in yes, an intro to economics course. For example you look at rent controls, and see how the supply and demand curve gets effected by these controls. You look at how a monopoly figures into it, too. Businesses have a lot of tactics they can and do use but, a lot, a lot, a lot of the time its enormously profitable and extremely productive to look at how these things wind up on the supply-demand curve. And yes, all this has been looked and studied before in exactly this manner. Thank God the entire world of academia didnt have your defeatist, "omg simplifying wtf holy shit" attitude.

Have you ever done a word problem in your life? You know how in physics, you get a word problem and it might be about a car going up a hill, or a wheel rolling down a steep slope, or a guy walking up a ladder, but it ultimately just turns into a free-body diagram and some manipulation of Newtonian formulas?

Or how you do problems in mathematics about water pumping out of and into different tanks, or populations growing and shrinking, or bridges warping, or relationship dynamics, or traffic moving, but it just turns into a bunch of differential equation at the end? ITS THE SAME TYPE OF THING! Gah.

Of course, your mind cant seem to think this way (maybe thats why you're an English major), which is why I said Im wasting my time.

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

And you fail to understand that "sells, specials, freebies, and lower prices, bad politics, area manapolies, and complete bullshit" are just manipulations of these basic concepts. "sells", freebies, specials, and lower prices can be thrown into the lot of raising demand, and bad politics, area "manapolies", and complete bullshit can be thrown into affecting supply.

You do a lot of this in yes, an intro to economics course. For example you look at rent controls, and see how the supply and demand curve gets effected by these controls. You look at how a monopoly figures into it, too. Businesses have a lot of tactics they can and do use but, a lot, a lot, a lot of the time its enormously profitable and extremely productive to look at how these things wind up on the supply-demand curve. And yes, all this has been looked and studied before in exactly this manner. Thank God the entire world of academia didnt have your defeatist, "omg simplifying wtf holy shit" attitude.

Have you ever done a word problem in your life? You know how in physics, you get a word problem and it might be about a car going up a hill, or a wheel rolling down a steep slope, or a guy walking up a ladder, but it ultimately just turns into a free-body diagram and some manipulation of Newtonian formulas?

Or how you do problems in mathematics about water pumping out of and into different tanks, or populations growing and shrinking, or bridges warping, or relationship dynamics, or traffic moving, but it just turns into a bunch of differential equation at the end? ITS THE SAME TYPE OF THING! Gah.

Of course, your mind cant seem to think this way (maybe thats why you're an English major), which is why I said Im wasting my time.

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You're fucking with me now. You know damn well what my major is. However, maybe I should change my major to English. The universe may colapse in on itself from the super dense Irony.

I think you are missing one big thing. Regardless if the economy can be put into math, you have no guarantee that EB or Gamespot do it in the way you describe. If by your judgment Circuit City didn't, who is to say EB and Gamespot do? It could be as I said earlier that they do it simple because keeping the price of jacked up on new releases used games, promotes the highest return on a used title, and promotes people choosing a new copy of the same game. We all know that S&D applies to the economy as a whole, but how do you know that EB as a company is using these methods?

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Originally Posted by sleeveboy

"Alright leeches, I want you all to meet our newest writer, Abraham Simpson. He's got something you couldn't get at your fancy schools...REAL LIFE EXPERIENCE!"

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Eh, actually it is a little bit more than that. A good bit of it comes from books on business and marketing.