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He lets a lot of weird behavior slide. Like this one:

"Under the simple pay-what-you-wish variation, 8.39% of people purchased a photo (almost 17 times more than before), but customers paid only $.92 on average.

The final option — pay what you wish, with half the purchase price going to charity — generated big results: purchase rates of 4.49% and an average purchase price of $5.33, resulting in significant profits for the theme park. This is a substantial result, especially since it came from a real setting."

Why does pay what you wish with half going to charity slash sales in half compared to standard pay as you wish?




A simple guess would be that people feel comfortable low balling the theme park but not the charity, even if any amount would help.




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