Plugg ADSL pricing comparison

Those tables aren't accurate. It says the Nashua Mobile 384k 1GB is R263.20, although it's R139 including the line rental. The Telkom Do price of R199 also includes the line rental.
 
and I see Plugg Pr 209.20 for some line rental as well..

DD
 
All of a sardine it is clear why the advert was so confusing etc etc etc etc

Turns out Plugg is a more expensive playmate...

Seems like I shall be waiting for Google to bring sanity to price ?
 
Didn't the plugg dude say the R33 package includes 1 gig of usage?
 
common Mr Plugg Dude
Now that the information is in a pretty matrix displayed ---->

Does it not scream at you the way it does to us ?

Would love to hear an argument because I am pretty sure you wanna charge a price that you were hoping us to pay, instead of charge a price for what the service is worth?
 
Swift-wp said:
Those tables aren't accurate. It says the Nashua Mobile 384k 1GB is R263.20, although it's R139 including the line rental. The Telkom Do price of R199 also includes the line rental.
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Can I just confirm this.

If I want a 1 gig 384k line from Nashua my total cost of ownership is R139. I don't owe Telkom an extra cent?
 
ajnviper said:
common Mr Plugg Dude
Now that the information is in a pretty matrix displayed ---->

Does it not scream at you the way it does to us ?

Would love to hear an argument because I am pretty sure you wanna charge a price that you were hoping us to pay, instead of charge a price for what the service is worth?
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There is no real argument bud. Pricing is pricing. What's more expensive Coke or Pepsi or Fanta or No Name Brand Cola? What's cheaper Hyundai, Tata, Daihatsu, Suzuki, Daewoo? That's the way the boerewors bends. It's all relative and it's all a LOT more complex than a "pretty matrix" can properly elucidate.

Any economics textbook can give many reasons as to competition based purely on price.

Most of them will tell you that competition based purely on price is complicated and often not advised.

Id est, any "pretty matrix" based purely on price is informative. For sure, and if you are basing your purchasing decision purely on price then it will help you with your decision. However, there are customers out there that do not make their purchasing decisions based purely on price.

You guys are welcome to dissect it, analyse it, flame it, discuss it. But it's not really my place. I'll answer questions though, if they're valid.

Hope that helps you.

Some info on competition:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_competition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_competition

As you may notice from the other thread, we're trying to offer product differentiation, better customer services and freedoms, flexibility, customisation, value, that personal touch etc etc. That's what we want to offer and by engaging here from even pre-hard launch we hope to do all of that, so being drawn into a pricing argument is not going to help anyone, IMHO.
 
No. You pay Nashua R139. that is for 1GB of BW and your ADSL line rental. You still need to pay Telkom R100 odd for your normal phone line rental
 
Plugg dude. I pay WA R199 a month. I get my ADSL line and 1GB of BW. now I know I can save myself R60 a month by moving over to Nashua, but I wont.

You say you guys are going for the service level and that personal touch. I get that already from WA at a lower price than you charge. Im not flaming or anything, just letting you know that you guys dont seem to have taken all the competition to mind. There are already ISP's doing exactly what you are trying to do at a lower cost and once all other factors are even, then cost is all you can compare on.

Now WA has been around for ages. their systems work, they have well trained staff and they generally brilliant at what they do. You guys are starting up in the home user market, you dont know 100% that your systems will migrate and theres always teething problems in a new venture. I wish you well, but I am not moving to something that is even more overpriced than it should be for a service which may or may not be better. just the way I see it.

Good luck to you guys though.
 
There is no real argument bud. Pricing is pricing. What's more expensive Coke or Pepsi or Fanta or No Name Brand Cola? What's cheaper Hyundai, Tata, Daihatsu, Suzuki, Daewoo? That's the way the boerewors bends. It's all relative and it's all a LOT more complex than a "pretty matrix" can properly elucidate.
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That is the weakest excuse I've ever heard! You can't compare different flavours or brands and come up with a "perfect competition" justification.

The actual apples with apples comparison would be:

Pick n Pay selling 2L coke for R10 and Spar selling the exact same 2L coke for R15. There is absolutely no way Spar could justify that their bottles of coke taste better than Pick n Pays, so therefore you should pay the extra R5 a bottle.
 
What if that R15 coke can win one lucky person a free "I love the Plugg Dude" shirt? Is that not justification?
 
Murmaider said:
That is the weakest excuse I've ever heard! You can't compare different flavours or brands and come up with a "perfect competition" justification.

The actual apples with apples comparison would be:

Pick n Pay selling 2L coke for R10 and Spar selling the exact same 2L coke for R15. There is absolutely no way Spar could justify that their bottles of coke taste better than Pick n Pays, so therefore you should pay the extra R5 a bottle.
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There's plensch discrepancies in the price of Coke, depends on where you buy it... but, as I said, not getting into a pricing argument.

And that's the last of it. No more baiting :D
 
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