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Hope you aren't house shopping right now.
Especially from all the price police dbags who seem to think that the price 1, 2, or more years ago must be the price today.
This year is the first that I've added people to the ignore list.
You're gonna really be pissed off when you find out that convenience stores exist. Ever paid $1 for a bottle of water that publix sells for 25 cents? $1 for two ibuprofen that Kroger sells for 10 cents? That's price gouging man! LOLI added a lot this year.
I can understand defending the "right" to price gouge or charge whatever you want. If someone wants to pay $500 for a box of ammo, no reason why they shouldn't be allowed to in a free market.
In an argument for capitalism, you can make those arguments that people should be allowed to do it. Conceptually, I don't think that anyone disagrees. My arguments have been about the justifications that people try, that don't hold water.
If you argument is, "Because I can"... Ok, I don't like it, but I would concede that you absolutely can...
If you argument is "supply and demand", then that I will take issue with, because I can easily prove that to be bull**** by showing all of the dealers selling the same gun at normal prices. People think that my argument has been against the ability to charge what people want to charge, and while I think asking $900 for a Glock is idiotic... that's never really been the crux of my argument...
I have debated the lame ass justifications that people have concocted... If you are just wanting to take advantage of panic buyers and make a profit, great. OWN it and admit it. lol
But if you are gonna pretend that this is what "the market" is doing... I am gonna call BS and give example after example of where the market is clearly NOT doing that. ODT may be part of the market, but it's hardly representative of what's going on in most local retail stores...
Good God man! You're going to give him a case of the vapors! Desist!You're gonna really be pissed off when you find out that convenience stores exist. Ever paid $1 for a bottle of water that publix sells for 25 cents? $1 for two ibuprofen that Kroger sells for 10 cents? That's price gouging man! LOL
From all your posts about buying guns, you must have the largest collection on the ODT.There is a difference when ALL houses have gone up in value... It is assumed that your house also went up, and so when you sell it, you have more to play with to buy the next house. It's why some investors say that your home really isn't a great investment. Sure, you could have bought it at $200k and 15 years later it is worth $400k. Seems like a nice profit, right? Problem is that you sold your home and need someplace to live and most of the homes you are looking at, are now $400k and up... So unless you sat on a home for 30 years, saw it REALLY go up in value and now you are retiring and downsizing and so you buy the house cash and still have half left over to toss in the bank...
Anyway, that's different than someone selling a Glock for $800 used here, when there are THREE local dealers this weekend, that I personally saw(hell, I bought one), selling brand new Glock 19 Gen5's for $519. There is "the market"... and then there is ODT. haha
From all your posts about buying guns, you must have the largest collection on the ODT.
The number of times you've complained about it suggest otherwise.Anyway, I don't care if people charge $900 for a Glock that the local stores are all selling for $500. )