A coffee shop that only stays open until 3 p.m. A doctor that only works two days a week. A bakery that closes for a month at a time so its owners can go on vacation.
Three examples. Three businesses that have lost customers (and money!) because of restricted hours that seem unreasonable to prospective customers.
Now most bricks-and-mortar businesses restrict their hours to some degree. As customers, we don’t expect to be able to browse through retail stores or go and get our hair cut in the middle of the night.
But the difference is that we see these as reasonable restrictions; they make sense to us.
You need to provide customers with what they will consider to be reasonable access to your products and services. If you don’t, they’ll find what you’re selling elsewhere.