| From: | Valerie A Olson <volson@********.ca> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Killing in Shadowrun... |
| Date: | Sat, 25 May 1996 17:14:37 -0400 (EDT) |
>
> >Raise the price in a cartel, and it becomes economic for someone to drop
> >their prices and grab market share: the more participants, the more
> >chance this will happen. It also becomes worthwhile for new players to
> >enter the market and undercut you.
>
> A new player comes into the market and he's charging less for his stuff than
> the Big 8. First, they'll maybe make it maybe a month before they're bought
> up. Second, during that month, they'll get no market share, despite their
> better prices. Why not? I mean, it'd only make sense that they're selling
> the product cheaper, they should get more biz. Because of marketing. A
> tiny little newbiecorp can't hang with the big dogs in marketing. See
> Microsoft for a good example and then realize that they're still nowhere
> near the level of a megacorp in 2057.
>
Sounds like a job for Shadow runners!! Thats the kind of thing we do. Oh,
they're undercutting us? send in a team to sabotage their business, it
could be done in any of a lot of ways but they would be run out of
business, and it would probably be us who did it!
Cheers,
The ROO-MAN,
via his wife.
