In message fred jones wrote: > to manufacture than what they are selling it for. When your competition > becomes aware of you cutting into their profits, they may decide to lower > the price of their product as well. Start your price higher so that you and > your comptetitor have "room" to stabilize on a price. If you start too low, > they may be able to come down to a non-profitable level for you but be > profitable themselves. This sounds a lot like a bidding war in an auction... Only without the, er... sniping... Dum dum duuuum... Later. -- Phil. philpem@dsl.pipex.com http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.com/ -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body