Strange business model

[fbhjr]

The dog grooming place up the hill from where I work left off flyers for
people in our lunchroom.
They are having a special sale where you can “self wash your dog for only
$15.”

This seems very strange to me.
Why would I pay $15 to wash a dog myself. Right now I don’t have a dog,
and that may be for the best. If every time I washed my dog myself I would
need to send these people $15.

Now, these are the same folks that have had dogs so terrified of them that
they run off and spend several nights in the swamp.
http://www.fbhjr.livejournal.com/809116.html
http://www.fbhjr.livejournal.com/811126.html
So, I’m not totally convinced they get along with dogs all that well in the
first place.
But, the dogs are paying the money, presumably the people are.
I just don’t understand how.

Personally, I think $15 is a lot.
If I can figure out how they get paid, I’ll set up the same thing for only
$5.
Isn’t that better?
Rather than send these folks $15 every time you wash your dog, you only
have to send me $5.
I’m much more reasonable.

Comments

[cissa.livejournal.com]

We do not wash our dogs ourselves. Life's too short, and ours have tended to hate water. So we pay for someone ELSE to do it.

I would not want to do it myself, even if the $15 included special dog-washing facilities. If I wanted to do it myself, I would.