Look up the definition and know that "commodity" also typically refers to a generalized product available in larger quantities and often from multiple sources. Like, say, ketchup. Nobody's cornered the market on ketchup.
this is correct, and it makes sense if they had no retailers other than themselves, but this isnt the case, so this point is irrelevant.
No, they have a few retailers because the retailers give them something they can't get on their own, like exposure at the bigger events and shows and such.
But they already have introduced a middle man (a few actually in the form of other retailers) so why do you keep harping on this like its relevant?
Because you keep pretending that there aren't other reasons. Your friend probably doesn't bring to the table the same things Dynamic Discs can and does.
You really like talking down to people don't you?
Only the ones who PM me and call me a prick. :|
If you wanna be a Grip homer, go ahead, nobody is stopping you.
Not a Grip homer. Just have a brain and like to use it from time to time. Try it out! You might like it!
But you seem to be very intent on making me look ignorant and like im the one in the wrong here, which is silly, and a little sad that you could defend a company of which you have no stock in for something that is so obviously tasteless in addition to being bad business.
Tasteless and bad business? Yes, because keeping more of the profits to yourself, on bags that you're selling about as fast as you can make them, is such a bad business.
Im not going to discuss this with you anymore because youre harping on the part of my gripe that I dont care about as much. You keep trying to convince me that their decision to not add another retailer is a good one.
Just common sense why they
might not want to add another middle man and why they
might not want to allow ANY of them to sell online.
Like I said a handful of times in earlier posts, that decision was only slightly disappointing mostly because I was thinking of getting one of the bags.
So buy one online. But you won't, because you're ticked that they didn't want to let your friend profit off them. So they didn't respond to your friend's emails. Zzzzzz. Okay.
But I dont think anyone can argue that a series of emails and an app to be a retailer going unreplied to and ignored for months is pretty bad business.
Why exactly is it bad business? Besides the one bag they didn't sell to you because you're trying to stick up for your friend's inalienable right to get an email from a company that doesn't want to add him as a middle man?
Right. So they didn't respond... until they did. Read this thread. It seems like a small operation and they don't answer email all the time.
I'm happy with my bag, but not overly attached to it. It's a tool. Its job is to carry plastic discs around. It does it well.
But like I said, I like to use my brain from time to time, and generally don't like people slagging on others when there are perfectly legitimate reasons for the others to have done what they did.
Could they have responded to emails sooner? Perhaps. But for all we know the requests were poorly written and they deleted several of them. Who knows?
For your lovely PM, you'll go on my ignore list. Respond if you'd like, I won't see it. Woo!
I have noticed that people tend to get defensive about their purchases on these forums, whether it be bags, discs, or anything else. The beauty of it is, everyone is allowed to buy what they want, and everyone is allowed to critique those purchases (which Pwingles was not doing, but it seems iacas took it that way).
That's really got nothing to do with it. I'd make the same argument whether I owned one of their bags or not. His panties are in a bunch because they didn't let his friend profit from them. Boo hoo.
"Commodification (also called commoditization) occurs as a goods or services market
loses differentiation across its supply base, often by the diffusion of the intellectual capital necessary to acquire or produce it efficiently. As such,
goods that formerly carried premium margins for market participants have become commodities, such as generic pharmaceuticals and DRAM chips. Another example is the credit card product, where all suppliers offer almost identical interest rates, fees, rewards programs, and bait & hook incentive models for new customers. Since the core credit card product is essentially identical, the only remaining market differentiators are branding & customer service."
Not that Wikipedia is always the best source, but the bold parts explain why Grips aren't commodities. They're still being sold at a premium price and they haven't yet become commodities.
