> On Feb 24, 2015, at 3:05 PM, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Your motel rooms are constrained by the fact that THEY CANNOT MOVE. Your motel rooms aren’t a trade good for sale.
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> Sorry. But I disagree. They are very much trade goods for sale and also carry a rather viscious expiration date; once a given date has passed, any rooms that weren't rented represent wasted inventory.

You cannot move your motel rooms to a region of higher demand.

If someone puts up a skyscraper in the nice mountain views, you cannot just move around them. Ergo they’re not goods, they’re a service. You have a capital investment in providing that service (the motel), but still you’re not selling motel rooms. You’re selling a night’s use of a motel room.

Also un-rented rooms aren’t ‘wasted inventory’ unless you blow them up. Heck you don’t even have to sink much in the way of maintenance costs into them; un-rented rooms don’t generally need to be cleaned.  :-) So no they don’t ‘expire’.

This isn’t like buying food for a restaurant, where if you don’t sell as many fish dinners as you anticipated you end up with unsold fish isn’t going to last. That is a ‘vicious expiration date’.

This is akin to hauling passengers or freight in traveller. Jumping without a full load doesn’t somehow reduce the value of your ship, it just means you make less money that jump.

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