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by tremon 2056 days ago
...and possibly with less profit, because marketing would eat away at the margins.
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They'd have to raise prices just to keep the margins the same.
The important question is how much demand does each dollar of marketing create. It would be poor decision-making to just assume marketing is a bad idea because they are already able to sell through everything at current prices. Presumably there’s somebody doing that math at the company.