• Diurnambule@jlai.lu
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    2 months ago

    Employee need to be paid to build it, ship it. You are asking them to sell at loss. But okey.

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      2 months ago

      You misunderstood. No profit does not equal loss.

      The employee builds a Steam Machine with either a €100 or €250 drive. All costs are the same except for that drive. However, the difference in price the end consumer pays is not a €150 difference but a €320 one.

      This implies Valve takes their costs and just adds a percentage margin over it for profit. And I’m saying they shouldn’t do that. Pay what must be paid and let us pay the same.

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        2 months ago

        Margin helps account for support, returns, and short term cost increases. You think anything beyond zero is unfair?

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        2 months ago

        Can’t be the exact cost of a drive, you have to market research to buy the best for the system. Then marketing etc. Cost are never just hardware for a corpo, but yeah in a dream world corpo should not be evil. If it is the same producer of disk I may be wrong, though one the part you pay for research of the best sdd.