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What are some popular consumer products?

What are some examples of consumer products that create high switching costs for the consumer?

  • Are there any examples of products where after a consumer buys and uses it, he is basically locked in to buy more of it or keep upgrading it?

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    E-mail adresses Once you have a certain e-mail adress, it makes it very difficult to stop using it and get another one. Why? Because you have already given this same adress to possibly hundreds of people, and notifying all of them about a change can be a pain, since you probably don't remember who you gave your e-mail adress to.

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I'm not one hundred percent sure, but wouldn't seeds from Monsanto be one answer to this question; because once farmers buy their seeds they are not allowed to use the seeds from this produce and must continue to buy more from Monsanto?

Leslie Dufour

- Operating Systems (Mac OS/Windows) - Cloud Services (e.g. iCloud, SugarSync, Dropbox) - Mobile Phone Systems/OS (try switching from Android to iPhone or the other way around)

Marc C. Lange

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