>From: john hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Serious question: If the firm is already charging a
>profit maximizing price, how can it pass the cost of
>bathroom maintenance to customers as a whole?
>
Why do you assume the cost of bathroom maintenance isn't already included in
the price charged?
(
> > "Providing this free service [public restroom] for
> > their customers only serves to reduce businesses'
> > profits, or else the cost is passed on
> > indiscriminately to all their customers."
>
> Serious question: If the firm is already charging a
> profit maximizing price, how can it pass
john hull:
>Serious question: If the firm is already charging a profit maximizing
price, how can it pass the cost of bathroom maintenance to customers as
a whole?<
1. There is no a priori reason to think that either
* he is in fact charging a profit-maximizing price, or
* he believes that he is
"Providing this free service [public restroom] for
their customers only serves to reduce businesses'
profits, or else the cost is passed on
indiscriminately to all their customers."
Serious question: If the firm is already charging a
profit maximizing price, how can it pass the cost of
bathroom m
This is an example of 'bundling' goods. It pays to offer some good for
'free' to entice the purchase of others.
Tim James.
Probably because of what some Burger King guy called the "veto-vote."
Let's say you have a group of four or five people, and one has to use the
bathroom. They are in an a
Point taken. But now we're back to the problem of SR/LR MC in an auction
and the lowest sustainable offer.
Tim James.
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>From: fabio guillermo rojas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> 3. They aren't as profitable as you think because people can frequently
>> use quasi-public restrooms such as fast food places, hotels, gas stations,
>> etc. Ie, there are real
So the choice could be to avoid the indigents or to cover costs of cleaning
restrooms. We could put location in your puzzle, if you don`t mind. So, in
zones with more indigents it could be thought that pay toilets would be
often (or, alternatively, in a world of only paid toilets, the prices would
But, wait. The quasi-public restrooms aren`t so clean as the paid restrooms.
There is a difference here in quality standards.
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John Perich:
>why do some public restrooms in . . . bookstores require either coins
OR free tokens to use?<
Starting with the observation that bookstore customers can be very odd
indeed, and adding in what appears to be an observed propensity no less
than average to do weird things in (semi-)pri
they do it. in holland. (it`s not a joke).
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> From: fabio guillermo rojas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tim James:
>The marginal cost of toilet use must (in most cases) be approximately
zero.<
If the question is -- as "marginal" seems to imply -- the cost of _one
more_ user, then you're right. But, of course, the difference in usage
between pay and non-pay would be far greater than that. In many
I guess this is as good a subject as any for my first post to the list.
1. Pay toilets are practically the norm throughout Europe. In fact, a
company, operating under the oh so clever name of "Mc Clean", operates
restrooms in train stations across the continent. Train station restrooms
tha
The marginal cost of toilet use must (in most cases) be approximately zero.
There is a (relatively) competitive market in toilet provision in most
commercial
environments.
Suppose retailers introduced charging. In the absence of a cartel, a Dutch
auction
would probably occur and the price be dr
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From: fabio guillermo rojas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 3. They aren't as profitable as you think because people can frequently
> use quasi-public restrooms such as fast food places, hotels, gas stations,
> etc. Ie, there are real competitors.
>
> Fabio
>
Yet this is just
fabio guillermo rojas wrote:
> 3. They aren't as profitable as you think because people can frequently
> use quasi-public restrooms such as fast food places, hotels, gas stations,
> etc. Ie, there are real competitors.
But in the old days those also often had coin-locks.
--
Anton Sherwood,
>From: Anton Sherwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>In the Seventies I remember reading of something called the Committee to
>Eliminate Pay Toilets In America.
If they'd changed it to "Committee to Eliminate Pay Toilets In Communities,"
they could have named themselves "C.E.P.T.I.C". Opportunities
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Just a note, I was in Madrid a few years ago, and they have pay toilets.
Ana L. Balcarcel
Dept of Finance- ASU
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