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How
bad do users feel about unpredictable
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pricing?
In between these extremes there is
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dynamic
pricing - you can offer users a spot price
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instead
of a futures price - users dont like this
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much
(we have done some experiments...) but
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sometimes
they'll buy into it -
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Then
adapt the user’s behaviour instead of the
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application’s
behaviour - whether you can do this
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enough
to make the mean to peak ratio low
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enough
without incurring the wrath of users;
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(unpredictable
price is nearly as bad as
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unpredictable
call success/blocking probablity) is
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the
slightly more variable version of problem 1.
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