{"id":626,"date":"2008-09-08T08:38:37","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T16:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=626"},"modified":"2009-09-25T21:36:05","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T05:36:05","slug":"a-quality-of-mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=626","title":{"rendered":"A Quality of Mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I ran across this (fisher) price schedule<\/a>:

units<\/th>price<\/th><\/tr>
100<\/td>–<\/td>999<\/td>$1.50 each + $200 short-run fee<\/td><\/tr>
1000<\/td>–<\/td>2499<\/td>$1.50 each<\/td><\/tr>
2500<\/td>–<\/td>4999<\/td>$1.30 each<\/td><\/tr>
5000<\/td>–<\/td>7499<\/td>$1.20 each<\/td><\/tr>
7500<\/td>–<\/td>9999<\/td>$1.10 each<\/td><\/tr>
10000<\/td>–<\/td>24999<\/td>$0.90 each<\/td><\/tr>
25000<\/td>–<\/td>49999<\/td>$0.80 each<\/td><\/tr>
50000<\/td>–<\/td>99999<\/td>$0.70 each<\/td><\/tr>
100000<\/td>–<\/td>249999<\/td>$0.60 each<\/td><\/tr>
250000<\/td>and up<\/td>$0.55 each<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/colgroup><\/table><\/div><\/p>

If the business were mine, then I would amend the table thus:

units<\/th>price<\/th><\/tr>
100<\/td>–<\/td>866<\/td>$1.50 each + $200 short-run fee<\/td><\/tr>
1000<\/td>–<\/td>2166<\/td>$1.50 each<\/td><\/tr>
2500<\/td>–<\/td>4615<\/td>$1.30 each<\/td><\/tr>
5000<\/td>–<\/td>6874<\/td>$1.20 each<\/td><\/tr>
7500<\/td>–<\/td>8181<\/td>$1.10 each<\/td><\/tr>
10000<\/td>–<\/td>22222<\/td>$0.90 each<\/td><\/tr>
25000<\/td>–<\/td>43749<\/td>$0.80 each<\/td><\/tr>
50000<\/td>–<\/td>85714<\/td>$0.70 each<\/td><\/tr>
100000<\/td>–<\/td>229166<\/td>$0.60 each<\/td><\/tr>
250000<\/td>and up<\/td>$0.55 each<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody>
For unit counts not in the ranges shown, please call us.<\/caption><\/table><\/div><\/p>

Granted that there might be a few belligerent customers who insisted<\/em> on buying a count in one of the ranges for which there was no listing; these could be offered the price as per the first schedule. (Or a flat fee of $350 for any number from 1 to 99.)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I ran across this (fisher) price schedule: unitsprice100–999$1.50 each + $200 short-run fee1000–2499$1.50 each2500–4999$1.30 each5000–7499$1.20 each7500–9999$1.10 each10000–24999$0.90 each25000–49999$0.80 each50000–99999$0.70 each100000–249999$0.60 each250000and up$0.55 each If the business were mine, then I would amend the table thus: unitsprice100–866$1.50 each + $200 short-run fee1000–2166$1.50 each2500–4615$1.30 each5000–6874$1.20 each7500–8181$1.10 each10000–22222$0.90 each25000–43749$0.80 each50000–85714$0.70 each100000–229166$0.60 each250000and up$0.55 eachFor unit counts not in […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,36,4],"tags":[334,387],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-economics","category-public","tag-everyday-absurdity","tag-pricing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}