What Do Fake Rolexes, Overpriced Wine, and iPhones Have in Common?

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What do fake Rolexes, overpriced wine, and iPhones have in common?

They’re sold the same way to the same types of consumers.

Luckily, the wine and iPhones haven’t hit the spam-bucket the way watches have recently. Watch spam is probably running a close third to 419 spam (“Esteemed sir, I am requesting for urgent business relationship….”) and [...]

To AdBlock or Not to AdBlock

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If there’s nothing certain, as Ol’ Ben put it, but death and taxes, Hamlet wrestled with only part of the question in his most famous soliloquy:

To be, or not to be…. For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come!

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Haircuts, Business Economics, and the Law of Unintended Consequences

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If you have been giving something away and you stop, do you really make more money? What about raising prices only for your best customers?

Those are the questions posed by the place where I’ve been getting my hair cut.

Background: There are at least four places to get my hair cut down at the [...]

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