Re: [CGUYS] Internet Shopping Efficiency [Was: Gates as Robin H

2008-02-07 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
The Wanamaker Organ has it's own monthly radio show on WRTI http://www.wrti.org/wanamakerorgan.html and the regular schedule is posted here http://www.wanamakerorgan.com/index1.html. According to the Friends of the Wanamaker Organ it is valued at $57 million.

Re: [CGUYS] Internet Shopping Efficiency [Was: Gates as Robin H

2008-02-06 Thread Tom Piwowar
You succeeded in making me both nostalgic and home sick all at once. Apparently you can still meet under the Eagle but it is a Macy's now. I hope the Warthog is still there. Does Macy's have somebody playing the organ? *

Re: [CGUYS] Internet Shopping Efficiency [Was: Gates as Robin H

2008-02-05 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
To be fair in the main branch of Wannamakers upstairs could be six or seven floors away. It could take a good ten minutes to get all the way back upstairs. That was probably worth a 10% premium. You succeeded in making me both nostalgic and home sick all at once. Apparently you can still meet

Re: [CGUYS] Internet Shopping Efficiency [Was: Gates as Robin H

2008-02-03 Thread Tom Piwowar
There is also price discrimination where buyers decide that web consumers won't buy at the regular market price so they offer lower prices on line. Much of real-world pricing behavior was mysterious to me until I learned about p.d. in my first micro-econ class. I used to love going shopping