Re: [photo-3d] Digest Number 214

[Rob <lilindn@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

(jastuart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Subject: Re: Fuji Frontier Printer Prices
> 
> Actually, I don't know why Ritz Camera charges different prices for
> prints from negs and prints from slides, as the prints come from a
> non-chemical computer process. I'm guessing that the only difference
> in printing from the two sources is a couple button pushes on the
> computer, but I could be wrong. If that's the case, why would a print
> from a slide cost more then twice that of a print from a neg?
> 
> 
    Because they figure they CAN!.  
    If they were to charge $.99 for each print from a negative, they
know their customer might shop around for a better price from a shop
using a conventional enlarger.  The also know that they are unlikely to
find a better price from a conventional provider for prints from slides,
since they would have to make an  internegative from the slide.  Too, a
customer bringing in a slide probably has a more important image (e.g.,
their parents' wedding) that one with a negative (e.g., last weeks
camping trip).
     This all boils down to one of the darker facets of capitalism,
"yield management" - charging the highest price at which you could
possibly get a customer, and downsizing when customers are driven away. 
It is why a phone call from NYC to Levittown costs three times as much
as a call from NYC to Moscow, why the person in seat 6A of a jetliner,
flying to the funeral of a relative who suddenly died, has paid ten
times as much for the airfare as the tourist in seat 6B, and it is why
it cost 20 times as much to ship something by rail from Rochester to NYC
(only one rail line choice) as to ship from Minneapolis to NYC (both
served by several lines).
    Rob
    "Everything I have is Y1.96K compliant"