this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2023
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So if you raise the price 31 days prior, and then put the discount on, you should still be good to squeeze more profit!
You would not gain a profit for 30 days with such high prices.
Maybe the 30 day decrease in profit would be worth the additional units sold later (possibly at a slightly elevated price), due to the marketing of a perceived "deal".
I guess there's a lot of variables that could come into play (type of product, inventory, how many units need to sell over a time period to break even, etc), but it doesn't seem implausible, so much as it does dependent. But idk, I still can't figure out how the fuck magnets work, let alone accounting