| businesses tend to give discounts to customers who buy more To economists, it simply doesn’t make sense to make chatterboxes pay that penalty. After all, most businesses tend to give discounts to customers who buy more. That is not true. The record is very mixed in that regard. Sure you get discounts when buying cereal; dog food; and other items at Sam's club and the like. But you pay more when you use more electricity; natural gas; water; and other goods considered to have limited supply. I put bandwidth in that category - it is a resource limited by the infrastructure and the increasing costs of trying to supply an unlimited amount.
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Camden, TN | said by fAcEtIOUs:To economists, it simply doesn’t make sense to make chatterboxes pay that penalty. After all, most businesses tend to give discounts to customers who buy more. That is not true. The record is very mixed in that regard. Sure you get discounts when buying cereal; dog food; and other items at Sam's club and the like. But you pay more when you use more electricity; natural gas; water; and other goods considered to have limited supply. I put bandwidth in that category - it is a resource limited by the infrastructure and the increasing costs of trying to supply an unlimited amount. actually the more electricity I use the LOWER the kilowatt per hour they charge. At last in my area that's how it works. |
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2 edits | said by BF69:said by fAcEtIOUs:To economists, it simply doesn’t make sense to make chatterboxes pay that penalty. After all, most businesses tend to give discounts to customers who buy more. That is not true. The record is very mixed in that regard. Sure you get discounts when buying cereal; dog food; and other items at Sam's club and the like. But you pay more when you use more electricity; natural gas; water; and other goods considered to have limited supply. I put bandwidth in that category - it is a resource limited by the infrastructure and the increasing costs of trying to supply an unlimited amount. actually the more electricity I use the LOWER the kilowatt per hour they charge. At last in my area that's how it works. In my area, during winter it is all the same price/kwh. But in summer, when demand due to air conditioning is high, and there are worries about brownouts and sufficient supply, the cost goes up after 500 kwh are used.
Your being in the old TVA area and electricity being generated by water power, I suspect that shortages of electric supply are minimal. My area uses a lot of coal, oil and gas powered plants in the summer to supplement power supplied by nuclear power plants.
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