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To: edamo who wrote (143240)	9/29/1999 11:36:00 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

>>oil prices are going up because supply is being controlled.<< edamo, limiting supply has the effect of rising prices and reducing demand (for the limited supply!). funny, you say i don't have a clue when in fact you can't make the connection. >>housing prices(new construction) couldn't drop as you state due to cost of material and labor.<< buildings have sold below cost thousands of times. why? low demand relative to supply. >>demand has nothing to do with price....very rarely is consumption lessened by price....unless the price is very high<< edamo, econ 101 is tailor made for you. educate yourself in economics. this is one of the silliest things i've seen stated on si (and i've seen silly!). >>add $50 to the cost of a computer...about $2 a month on a corporate lease...andfor the average consumer, as long as he has his credit card, doesn't matter...<< then why doesn't dell do it? they don't like profits? sell 1 million boxes. $50 per box. $50 million in profits dell REFUSES to take. that is up there in the silly dept, too. >>i've got better things to do then discuss fantasy with one who lacks real world knowledge....<< this makes me feel good. the day a guy who thinks up is down and down is up says i make sense is the day i re-evaluate myself! -ng-

To: edamo who wrote (143240)	10/1/1999 7:57:00 AM
From: Lucretius	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

ROFLMAO.

To: edamo who wrote (143240)	10/2/1999 8:44:00 AM
From: Jock Hutchinson	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 176387

Edamo: Truly you are the one who is clueless. An increase in price will (all other factors being equal) result in less demand. A decrease in price will (all other factors being equal) result in greater demand. Thus, since there appears to be a short-term increase in price (due to lower supplies of motherboards), there will clearly be less (somewhat) demand. Of course, we are always looking at a dynamic (as opposed to static) market, wherein there is an upward shift in the demand curve throughout the world--which in turn mitigates any potential drop in demand that would result from an increase in price. But my question for you is this. If DELL is the world's greatest assembler of computer components, why then does it not take on the task of "assembling" TVs or autos? What differentiates a product like a TV from a product like a computer? More and more, the answer is not much.