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Comment by nine_k

10 days ago

But what do you do with unsold Chanel quilts?

Cut the price, this is basic microeconomics.

  • That is not what they should do according to microeconomics because luxury goods are Veblen goods. Decreasing price would lower demand, at least until they lowered it enough that it was no longer a Veblen good.

    Basic microeconomics is just that: basic and thus an oversimplification.