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Originally Posted by |-Goku-|
One thing that they ran into on another forum was that the vendors were giving better prices to members they liked. And upping the prices for members that they didn't. Which is very unfair and dishonest.
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It's not dishonest, but it is slightly unfair. But life isn't fair. To give a brick-and-mortar example, I am a "wholesaler" of auto parts for various shops in my area. The company I work for has pricing tiers based upon how much a commercial customer buys from us. The more they buy the higher the tier they will move to. This is the same as having preferred pricing, but more structured.
Commerce has *always* been about the person with the item charging what he feels he can get from the person with the money. If someone buys from you a lot, you might charge them less because you know in the long run they'll spend more money with you. Conversely, if someone rarely buys or is a giant PITA, you'll want to charge them more to get the margin you require or to cover the headaches (a.k.a. @$$hole tax).
There's nothing stopping someone from selling their product to a customer for one dollar or a million dollars except their wish to see them come back. What a customer has to do is ask themselves, "Am I someone this business wants to come back?"