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robocat 5 hours ago

> it's one of those industries where price sensitivity inverts at the upper end

What does that mean?

eucyclos 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Custom clothing is used to signal wealth, so past a certain point, more expensive actually becomes more desirable.

It happens when something is supply constrained and a costly signal. Universities are the classic example, Harvard would never lower its prices to be more appealing than Yale.

thaumasiotes 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> Universities are the classic example, Harvard would never lower its prices to be more appealing than Yale.

This would sound more convincing if Princeton hadn't already done that exact thing.

eucyclos an hour ago | parent [-]

Well, obviously there's an upper limit to that game, but I would bet Princeton's issue wasn't that they were failing to fill classrooms at the higher price point.