On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 09:39:16PM -0400, Luke S. Crawford wrote:
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 10:06:03AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
We pay what our providers think they can get away with. Like most pricing decisions, they're not based on any "technical logic", they're based on what the market will bear. Feel free to turn the process around -- decide what the service is worth to you, tell the provider of the service that price, and let them decide if they want to provide it to you at that price. Don't be too surprised if you get monkeys in exchange for your peanuts, though.
Are you suggesting that you get worse service after you negotiate a better deal with a particular provider?
To a certain extent, yes. It has been my experience (from both the service provider and the customer point-of-view) that customers who aren't worth as much to a supplier don't get as much "love", because the cost of losing their business to a competitor is much less (or, in some cases, would be a net win). However, my main point was that if you are mainly concerned about price, rather than quality of service (or, more precisely, the value-for-money ratio between the two), you are likely to end up with a substandard service. I will concede, however, that I didn't make that point particularly clear, for which I apologise. - Matt -- Advocating Object-Oriented Programming is like advocating Pants-Oriented Clothing. -- Jacob Gabrielson