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Title: USAToday price increase Post by: Ed W on September 19, 2013, 03:48:33 pm USAToday will double in price on Sept 30, going to $2per copy. This supposedly aligns the paper with other national publications. It's probably good news for both birdcage liners out of OKC and Tulsa.
Title: Re: Re: USAToday price increase Post by: Gaspar on September 19, 2013, 03:49:53 pm Amazed that papers are still paper.
Title: Re: USAToday price increase Post by: heironymouspasparagus on September 19, 2013, 05:07:05 pm I never pay for it....always comes free with the hotel room.
Title: Re: Re: USAToday price increase Post by: Gaspar on September 19, 2013, 06:15:37 pm Free online too. I guess the luddites fund the rest of us.
Title: Re: USAToday price increase Post by: BKDotCom on September 19, 2013, 08:30:08 pm I never pay for it....always comes free with the hotel room. Your hotel room now costs $1 more. Your hotel also has a lot of other free stuff "free" parking "free" continental breakfast "free" wifi "free" toiletries etc Title: Re: USAToday price increase Post by: Conan71 on September 19, 2013, 08:45:57 pm Your hotel room now costs $1 more. Your hotel also has a lot of other free stuff "free" parking "free" continental breakfast "free" wifi "free" toiletries etc But why no "free" condom on the pillow at night? Title: Re: Re: USAToday price increase Post by: Gaspar on September 20, 2013, 04:50:36 am Because it's your employer's responsibility dummy!
Title: Re: USAToday price increase Post by: DolfanBob on September 20, 2013, 07:38:33 am But why no "free" condom on the pillow at night? Does it come with a free maid? Oh wait. Then it wouldn't be free. Never mind. Title: Re: USAToday price increase Post by: rebound on September 20, 2013, 03:10:12 pm Your hotel room now costs $1 more. Your hotel also has a lot of other free stuff "free" parking "free" continental breakfast "free" wifi "free" toiletries etc Hotels charge at market rate, not at cost plus. That's why you get "free" Wifi, parking, and breakfast at, say, a $100 Hampton Inn, but not at a $250 JW Marriott. A one-dollar increase in cost does not equal a one-dollar increase in price. Title: Re: USAToday price increase Post by: BKDotCom on September 20, 2013, 03:31:53 pm Hotels charge at market rate, not at cost plus. That's why you get "free" Wifi, parking, and breakfast at, say, a $100 Hampton Inn, but not at a $250 JW Marriott. A one-dollar increase in cost does not equal a one-dollar increase in price. Economics of scale? The more freebies and the hotel offers, the cheaper the rate? Bottom line: the hotel doesn't get the stuff for free, they're passing the cost on to the guest. Title: Re: USAToday price increase Post by: heironymouspasparagus on September 23, 2013, 11:53:08 pm Your hotel room now costs $1 more. Your hotel also has a lot of other free stuff "free" parking "free" continental breakfast "free" wifi "free" toiletries etc The whole hotel pricing thing is very elastic. Have stayed in the same hotel - same floor - and paid from $104 to $178 per night. Even the same week, have had two rates on the room depending on night. Kind of like airline ticket pricing... Same hotel is now only avail at $255. So I go to a "new" Hilton two blocks away....1875 bldg nicely redone. $114 a night. Worse restaurant, though. Title: Re: USAToday price increase Post by: sauerkraut on October 05, 2013, 02:23:09 pm I never buy that paper anyhow. I remember when that paper first came out in 1983 it was real cheap
Title: Re: USAToday price increase Post by: DolfanBob on October 07, 2013, 10:53:58 am I never buy that paper anyhow. I remember when that paper first came out in 1983 it was real cheap I had a subscription to it back in the 80s. I never saw who threw that in my driveway. It was like it fell from the sky and just appeared. My renewal would be a envelope attached with no name on it but a USA Today address. Very weird. I can't remember how much that it was but I do know that it was not that expensive. And my big draw was the National sports and the color pictures. ;D |