"Citation, please, or I'm done arguing with you. "
You want me to cite the second page of the thread? Okay.
Zundfolge said:
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS PRICE GOUGING!
Prices are set by the BUYERS, not the sellers.
If people are buying at a price you think is too high YOU are the one that's wrong and the higher price is the RIGHT price.
That's how free market economics works.
If you don't like the price, don't buy. Period.
The term "Price Gouging" is a dishonest term created by the Frankfurt School Marxists and is a classic part of Critical Theory of Marxism.
Go read THIS and then come back here and tell me all about Price Gouging.
Here, an article by the same author (Thomas Sowell) on the subject (since an entire book is a lot to read).
Also, where are your sources? None of them state that Price Gouging is a Marxist idea. Hell, they don't actually state anything to the effect of this conversation. Also, were bent out of shape? Didn't you just capitalize a whole sentence and start screaming Marxism?
Negotiating with dealers is pointless. I've gotten "Would you rather be known as a shrewd customer or a cheapsake" more often than "Okay let's talk". In fact it hasn't been since last fall, before Nov. 4th, that dealers were willing to talk to people. These day's it's the just finger and that's that.
Here's a definition for you:
"Price gouging is a term for a seller pricing much higher than is considered reasonable or fair."
Prices aren't reasonable, and they aren't fair. Ergo, Price Gouging.
I've yet to hear anything on dealers lying about the supply or their prices. Apparently it's easy enough to look over that when your screaming "Marxist" and "Socialist" loud enough.
You don't have to worry about coding Price Gouging into law,
Florida for one already did that.
What your forgetting oneounceload is this:
Price Fixing. Kind of like what Gas companies do when one company see's another raise or lower its prices. Pour Boy's Oil, in Kansa City, MO, basis their prices off what Quick Trip charges for example. QT goes up, so do they, QT goes down, they do to. To exactly the same price. That is what dealers are doing now. Great Guns in Liberty, MO, has Winchester .45 ACP for the same exact price that The Armory in Kearney, MO, has. $23 for hollow-point. Two different dealers, same price. You'll find the same deal down the road in Claycomo, at Show Me Shooters.