RobMoore
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The problem with gunshows is that the sellers have no interest in dealing with an informed buyer, because they know there are 10 suckers right behind you who will pay their inflated prices for substandard product.
Get a grip friend, and stop whining.....NO one is ripping anyone off if they WILLINGLY pay the asking price. You say you ran a business, then you should know this to be true.
Let me repeat basic econ 101 AGAIN......there is NO rip off or gouging if you W I L L I N G L Y pay the price.....I hope I spelled it slowly enough for you to read that.....GEE ZUS.......:banghead:
I hardly know where to begin with you.....your obvious ignorance of basic economics is mind boggling. I guess what your trying to peddle here is that in the case of a voluntary purchase there can be no "price gouging"....oneounceload said:Get a grip friend, and stop whining.....NO one is ripping anyone off if they WILLINGLY pay the asking price. You say you ran a business, then you should know this to be true.
Let me repeat basic econ 101 AGAIN......there is NO rip off or gouging if you W I L L I N G L Y pay the price.....I hope I spelled it slowly enough for you to read that.....GEE ZUS.......
oneounceload said:Get a grip friend, and stop whining.....NO one is ripping anyone off if they WILLINGLY pay the asking price. You say you ran a business, then you should know this to be true.
Let me repeat basic econ 101 AGAIN......there is NO rip off or gouging if you W I L L I N G L Y pay the price.....I hope I spelled it slowly enough for you to read that.....GEE ZUS.......
Did not see your post until just then....well put and accurate.smoking357 said:And you need to get out of that Econ class and into a Philosophy class, because you're spouting ontological nonsense.
You've destroyed the concept of "gouging," as, in your argument, there can be no gouging in a voluntary exchange. You've therefore proffered the fallacy of the self-sealing argument. Despite your feint, the concept of gouging yet exists as a widely understood concept, and payments made in a gouging transaction must necessarily be voluntary, or we'd be discussing theft or extortion, so your appeals to voluntariness are revealed as a canard.
Economics may be allowed to coin some terms, but that discipline is not the master of either Logic or the Rules of Inference. It is not allowed to establish empty concepts or set up straw men. If a set can have no members, then the set does not exist.
While you may be correct in stammering that $50 for primers is not quite gouging, your methodology is inaccurate. Governor Jeb Bush was quite insistent that charging $500 for a $50 hotel room to travelers escaping a hurricane was gouging, and his interpretation seems to comport with the common understanding of the term. Sure, people may voluntarily pay $500 for that hotel room or $30 for that gallon of gas, but these were still instances of gouging.
Sheesh, this is basic stuff.
Governor Jeb Bush was quite insistent that charging $500 for a $50 hotel room to travelers escaping a hurricane was gouging,
Just because it's an operation of the market does not inoculate it from being gouging.Yes, and he said that raising the price of plywood after the hurricane was "gouging". But he's wrong. Prices aren't handed down from the gods, they're determined by the buyers... if someone else is willing to buy that plywood (or gun) for more than you want to pay, it's not gouging.
In my experience, the best prices are from the line of people waiting to get in
I walk around, look at guns, talk about guns, watch people, maybe get a hot-dog and a coke. Then I leave. Where else can I do that all afternoon for $8.00? Cheapest entertainment I can find.
Big crowd at show, but I didn't see much money changing hands.