淘寶近來都幾積極推直運。
最初係搞咩直運咭，十五蚊人仔，三次十五蚊以下直運免費，另外又有啲紅包，結果我就試咗。
結果發現，我買三件貨，有時會分三次送，有時會集埋一包先送，都幾煩。
無所謂喇，都幾扺用。
但最後我用晒三次之後就無再買，因為覺得佢地鼓勵我買野既方法。平時真係有野買先買，仲要儲到有幾件先一次過買。
後來到雙十一，佢有得抽奬，感覺人人都抽到，我抽到五十蚊人仔，咁都好丫，唔使錢，咪照用咯，最後咪一啲貨用直運，以五十蚊為上限，其餘用返集運。
當日發現好似貴咗，運好少野就用完五十蚊，簡單講，五十蚊只得兩件唔係咁重既貨！不過心諗，唔使錢，是但喇！
直到某天....
收到電話話送貨上嚟屋企！仲話要收二十蚊送貨費，我話唔制，叫佢改送自提點！誰不知，自提點都一樣要收二十蚊！立時有中計既感覺！
後來發現，依家直運 default 係送去你家，而以前我買直運卡，那時 default 係自提點，而且係唔使附加費！
似乎真係一個局嚟！我諗唔到點解要用直運了...
就算無呢個局，直運都唔吸引，首先，你買野時要考慮清楚，一次過落單！無咗彈性！
直運唯一方便係唔使等齊貨再人手叫佢集運！但其實快唔得幾多，亦唔方便得多好多！
簡單講，用返集運喇！又平，又簡單，亦差不多速度！
Showing posts with label economy. Show all posts
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Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
grcpool and wallet update
I did some mining on grcpool, since I had been doing seti@home and similar stuff anyway.
Upon payout from grcpool, I found that my wallet was not updated at all.
And after much research, I am confident about what I did was probably correct and through the process, I understand the whole mechanism more.
Then after around two days of time, I found my wallet was updated.
Just to keep this note to everyone, and please be reminded that it could take one or two days, or even a bit longer.
Keywords: grcpool, wallet not updated, payout not received, wallet failed to update, grc, grc mining
Upon payout from grcpool, I found that my wallet was not updated at all.
And after much research, I am confident about what I did was probably correct and through the process, I understand the whole mechanism more.
Then after around two days of time, I found my wallet was updated.
Just to keep this note to everyone, and please be reminded that it could take one or two days, or even a bit longer.
Keywords: grcpool, wallet not updated, payout not received, wallet failed to update, grc, grc mining
Friday, October 14, 2011
歷史被邊沿化
香港人大概都知有個宋王台, 但我相信大概沒有人會特意去這個地方:
這裡除了石碑, 基本上甚麼都沒有
此外, 這地方十分狹少
還有, 這地方是交通交匯處, 四面都是繁忙的馬路, 跟本沒有人會步行經過
因此, 這地方大概跟墳墓沒有大分別, 更慘是墳墓每年都會在春秋二祭有人到訪, 這裡卻沒有!
在這個一切以經濟掛帥的地方, 歷史只好被邊沿化了
這裡除了石碑, 基本上甚麼都沒有
此外, 這地方十分狹少
還有, 這地方是交通交匯處, 四面都是繁忙的馬路, 跟本沒有人會步行經過
因此, 這地方大概跟墳墓沒有大分別, 更慘是墳墓每年都會在春秋二祭有人到訪, 這裡卻沒有!
在這個一切以經濟掛帥的地方, 歷史只好被邊沿化了
A good leader?
With the death of Steve Jobs, people praise him highly to be an excellent innovator and leader.
On the text book, we believe that a good organization should not depend too much on a single person, and likewise, a good leader should not make his team so much dependent on him.
A good leader should be one who manage to motivate and enable the whole team, rather than to make everyone follow and even dependent on him.
Having said that, the most objective or even the most appreciated metrics for measuring a successful company is the revenue and the value of the company, and in that case, it seems like Steve Jobs was violating the above principle, but yet he and his company managed to earn.
So what's the problem?
On the text book, we believe that a good organization should not depend too much on a single person, and likewise, a good leader should not make his team so much dependent on him.
A good leader should be one who manage to motivate and enable the whole team, rather than to make everyone follow and even dependent on him.
Having said that, the most objective or even the most appreciated metrics for measuring a successful company is the revenue and the value of the company, and in that case, it seems like Steve Jobs was violating the above principle, but yet he and his company managed to earn.
So what's the problem?
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Pulling commodity from applications
It's interesting to see that for the last five to ten years, people have been pulling computer applications from computer to make standalone products like VCD player, DVD player, mp3 player, etc. All these were very successful.
However, the trend seems to be reversed these days when smart-phones and tablets were getting popular. You will probably not use a standalone mp3 player, and you will probably not use a standalone DVD player, instead, you watch movies and you listen to music via your tablets there days.
While it could be nice if a single machine could do everything for you, however, it could even be better if things just get smaller. For example, even your tablet is powerful enough to play music but then you will still need a headphone/earphone! What if your headphone/earphone could play the music by itself? If it can, your tablet will not be necessary any more.
Content-wise, putting stuff in the cloud for centralized storage and manipulation should be the best.
However, the trend seems to be reversed these days when smart-phones and tablets were getting popular. You will probably not use a standalone mp3 player, and you will probably not use a standalone DVD player, instead, you watch movies and you listen to music via your tablets there days.
While it could be nice if a single machine could do everything for you, however, it could even be better if things just get smaller. For example, even your tablet is powerful enough to play music but then you will still need a headphone/earphone! What if your headphone/earphone could play the music by itself? If it can, your tablet will not be necessary any more.
Content-wise, putting stuff in the cloud for centralized storage and manipulation should be the best.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Re-evaluation
The price of a certain item will not jump dramatically simply because people believe that it should worth a higher price.
It will jump only when people see it from an entirely new angle. Let say a certain company, after acquisition or re-organization, or having a new way of business, its true value should then be re-evaluated, and in that case, a huge price jump would then be expected.
Gold had lost its function as a form of reserve in the last twenty years so its price remained more or less constant. But recently with the economic down turn or better say re-shuffling, the function of USD was now in doubt and gold came out again so that it might regain its old position, by then it's value is being re-evaluated again!
Of course, such a re-evaluation process is hard to predict, and sometimes it will overshoot but then adjustments will follow. I expect the price of gold should keep moving in a generally upward trend for a number of years to come.
It will jump only when people see it from an entirely new angle. Let say a certain company, after acquisition or re-organization, or having a new way of business, its true value should then be re-evaluated, and in that case, a huge price jump would then be expected.
Gold had lost its function as a form of reserve in the last twenty years so its price remained more or less constant. But recently with the economic down turn or better say re-shuffling, the function of USD was now in doubt and gold came out again so that it might regain its old position, by then it's value is being re-evaluated again!
Of course, such a re-evaluation process is hard to predict, and sometimes it will overshoot but then adjustments will follow. I expect the price of gold should keep moving in a generally upward trend for a number of years to come.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Price of Electronic Products
My DVD writer had failed for over a year but I was not so interested to replace it since we used to use USB drive for file copying, it's just much faster, cheaper and more reliable and higher capacity as well.
Last night my kid wanted to read a CD from her school and so I checked the price of a new DVD writer, and to my big surprise, it's just $143 HKD!
At that price, I wonder why the factory would still produce it... you can always make a mouse which should be way easier, and then the cost is about the same!
Last night my kid wanted to read a CD from her school and so I checked the price of a new DVD writer, and to my big surprise, it's just $143 HKD!
At that price, I wonder why the factory would still produce it... you can always make a mouse which should be way easier, and then the cost is about the same!
Friday, September 10, 2010
Decoupling of price and value
In these days, the price is determined solely by demand and supply, and therefore, there's a decoupling of price and value.
For example, when you eat a lunch box, the foam box was very cheap because of the law of supply and demand. However, the environment cost of the foam box is extremely big, it takes hundreds of years to decompose. And the processing of rubbish is expensive as well.
Such a phenomena is best exploited in the stock market, in which you can drive the price away from the value given you have enough money in the first place. And then after distorting the price, you can "create" value in this process. Of course, those were not really "value" since there's no production afterall.
For example, when you eat a lunch box, the foam box was very cheap because of the law of supply and demand. However, the environment cost of the foam box is extremely big, it takes hundreds of years to decompose. And the processing of rubbish is expensive as well.
Such a phenomena is best exploited in the stock market, in which you can drive the price away from the value given you have enough money in the first place. And then after distorting the price, you can "create" value in this process. Of course, those were not really "value" since there's no production afterall.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Ugly profit driven business model?
I have been using a certain brand of product for quite long. They're very good in quality and the price is reasonable. It has been getting more popular over the years, and they even got listed in the local exchange.
Recently, there's a noticeably drop on the quality, I wonder why. I imagine the situation could be like this?
1. Start a new brand, offering great quality product at reasonable price, let say they can sell 10,000 every month. So, imagine if they cut cost of $0.1 for each item, they can only save 10,000*0.1 = $1000 only, not worth to do at all!
2. They have a bigger market share, now they can sell 1,000,000 every month and since they are more popular now, they have more control on the price, they have more bargaining power, so they can always increase the price a little bit without problem. Let say by $0.1 for each item, they can earn 1,000,000 * 0.1 = $100,000 more each month.
3. Now, they are one of the major players, they can sell 100M every month, they can virtually control the price until the consumer cannot afford, and they are now ready to reduce the quality, let say $0.1 for each item, they can earn 10M more each month.
Is that what is happening all these years? I wonder.
Recently, there's a noticeably drop on the quality, I wonder why. I imagine the situation could be like this?
1. Start a new brand, offering great quality product at reasonable price, let say they can sell 10,000 every month. So, imagine if they cut cost of $0.1 for each item, they can only save 10,000*0.1 = $1000 only, not worth to do at all!
2. They have a bigger market share, now they can sell 1,000,000 every month and since they are more popular now, they have more control on the price, they have more bargaining power, so they can always increase the price a little bit without problem. Let say by $0.1 for each item, they can earn 1,000,000 * 0.1 = $100,000 more each month.
3. Now, they are one of the major players, they can sell 100M every month, they can virtually control the price until the consumer cannot afford, and they are now ready to reduce the quality, let say $0.1 for each item, they can earn 10M more each month.
Is that what is happening all these years? I wonder.
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