Amen! IMHO, there's a lot of crap coming out of people who have absolutely no idea what it takes to run a successful business. If you have something that costs you $10 that you usually sell for $12 but you have the opportunity to sell it for $50, you're an idiot if you don't sell it for $50. Likewise, if you're a consumer and you take offense to your local shop selling a $12 item for $50, if you begrudge your local shop making a profit when and where he can, YOU are the one being disloyal, greedy and a few other things I'll refrain from saying on THR.
Greed is not exclusive to merchants and corporations. What we're seeing a lot of these days, particularly in silly threads like this, is ignorant consumer greed.
All of this is a direct result of liberalized thinking and living in a nanny state where everybody expects the government to protect them from the bad mens.