Is it strange that I wondered about the business model for Nora's
salesman-friend's business? They are catering to a very specific
population. If 6 billion people are on Earth and 2 percent vanished
then that's 120,000,000 possible sales. But if your product costs
$40,000 then only a small portion of the vanished's families can afford
your product.
The company would have to branch out into
other ways of making people want to bury their loved one's likeness.
Like if they are a regular missing person. But then you have a whole
different problem about convincing them to close the book on the missing
person. Burn victims? People killed in natural disasters or plane
crashes? War heroes who dont come home?
I suppose this
company could plan to make a lot of sales its first few years but they
have to plan for it leveling off. One thing they could do is try to get
families who are spread out across the country to have multiple
memorials. Of course, buying a plane ticket is much cheaper than one of
these dolls.
Basically, the partners in this business
better get together and figure out how they can use this technology for
something else or they are simply going to run out of customers.
Hmmmm.....
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