Does Price Matter?

[havenne]

Well, of course it does!  If you don't have enough of the medium of exchange you don't get to purchase whatever it is.  If you have several necessities but only so much to spend (and it doesn't cover all of the total price) then you have hard choices to make.  But when that level of 'enough' has been reached then we have softer choices; perhaps,

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[bastkitty]

I think price matters... sort of. Honestly, it has been my experience that if I think something is "worth" it... I don't really care much about the actual price tag. I will eventually get whatever the item is that I want, and if I don't, then I must not have really wanted it. In the rare instance that it is something I truly want, then I don't mind spending the money to get *exactly* what I wanted. I find that when I'm "settling", I frequently don't feel that the money spent was worth it, and I am unhappy

[havenne]

Now, if only I could get someone to do the 'work' parts

[dragonmyass]

Coming from someone with a past in retail - the origin price of the product is relatively the same - it's the individual retailers that hike up the prices. From attending sales meetings at the pet store, I learned that the merchandising manager loved hiking up the price of products just to squeek a little more out of the consumer...and believe me, consumers notice. On my last day I sold a pet brush and catnip spray to a woman. She returned the items about an hour later as she had gone across the street to another pet store and purchased the identical items for $15 less than she paid at our store.

Just remember the hike up on the jewelery prices.

[havenne]

Oh, yes, the jewelry - you reminded me of the trip to the silver wholesaler that I tagged along with Kayla. Her markup on the rings and earrings had to be at least five times her cost, many pieces only running $2-$5 and then being priced by her at $15, and up, to the consumer. And Kayla's prices were lower than many of her competitors