An Economic Matter

Ah, one other thing that I have been doing recently with regards to Commercial Affairs is the setting of my sold products to “transfer” rather than “copy” (where appropriate - vehicles, for instance, must be copy, given the extraordinary number of accidents which can befall them).

One practical result of this is that people may now visit Ordinal Enterprises, see items which they are not that interested in themselves but think would be absolutely perfect for someone else, and purchase them as gifts without having to bother me about it. But I am also interested in the idea that, once bored, someone would then be able to resell or pass on the item concerned.

If anyone would prefer copy versions they should simply say so, return the original item and I will be delighted to pass them one entirely free of charge - another benefit of transfer items, since if someone buys a copy item and wishes a transferrable version, I have no guarantee that they have removed the item from their inventory and that this is not some sort of “I would like a free thing for my friend please” tomfoolery.

I am of course open to debate on this point. One drawback of no-copy transfer products is that if one wishes to provide a new version, one cannot simply drop the updated one upon the customer without effectively giving them a new one for nothing. I rarely update products, though, I must say.