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Why a Faster Result Can Be Worth Paying For

Customer urgency can shape willingness to pay. Shipping and transaction-processing examples show why the value of speed depends on the problem and the buyer.

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Willingness to pay is, how much, how painful is this problem to me? How much am I willing to pay? So sometimes that can be on different dimensions. It can be, I do a lot of these things, so I need it to be really, really fast. So instead of a week for shipping, I need a day. Or instead of this transaction to process and take a bunch of time with a bunch of people reviewing a number of steps, um, that could take a week or 5 business days, I want to collapse that into like one or 2 business days.

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