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Re:Bird One - $1299 by nerfhammer on Friday May 10, 2019 @07:40PM (#19883302)
If they stocked n-thousand of these scooters, why not see how many people are willing to buy them (at 600% markup)? They already have whatever economies of scale for stocking the scooters for their rental business.
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Re:Bird One - $1299 by kristopolous on Friday May 10, 2019 @08:01PM (#19883438)
Yeah why not? Just charge a price and see what happens. Willingness to pay is based on value perception and that's a hard thing to gauge.

I'm not seeing a rosy path to victory though.

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