Why do gun owners do this to each other?

[toivo]

I believe in the free market. I also believe in the free flow of information. If I saw that somebody was about to shell out $600 for an LCP, I would tell him that he could do a lot better elsewhere. That wouldn't be an opinion: it would be a fact. Would that be wrong?

 

[SCBradley]

I see the link from the OP is dead.

Did any of you comrades get the sellers name?

We need to add it to the revenge list for when the class war begins.

 

[JKimball]

Thanks for the info, PT1911. I think it is a little unfortunate that "The Jungle" (written by a socialist activist) is required reading but Adam Smith, the "father of modern economics" and the hero of the free market economy goes unmentioned, except to econ majors.

 

[Sam1911]

If I saw that somebody was about to shell out $600 for an LCP, I would tell him that he could do a lot better elsewhere. That wouldn't be an opinion: it would be a fact. Would that be wrong?

Nope. That's a part of why we congregate in places like THR, to share information. He's free to ignore your advice or take it. That's part of the "self-correcting" effect we've all discussed. There is no (practical) finite number of an item for sale. There are no (practical) limits on the information (including market value) about the item that can be gleaned from various sources.

What one person asks to be paid to relinquish one example of that item is his/her business.

What another person chooses to pay to gain one example of that item is his/her business.

We (both personally, and "we" as in the world at large) can try to ensure full disclosure about market conditions, but the free choice is up to each of them in the end. Nothing dishonest or unethical about it.

-Sam

 

[Lone_Gunman]

Why do those of you who think this is "just capitalism" seem to think that the rest of us should not express our opinions that this is morally wrong to charge that much above fair market value?

Isn't consumer response not part of capitalism?

I see the link from the OP is dead.

I think he has had his original ad removed, and then he reposted it in violation of forum rules, and had it removed again.

 

[schloe]

There's nothing wrong with attempting to sell something for as much as you possibly can. Come on people.

I thought this forum was about freedom???

 

[Ed Ames]

why?

You haven't established any harm to you or anyone else.

You have accused someone you have never met of imoral and/or criminal behavior. You have linked that to "gun owners" in your thread title.

You also brought up capitalism in a "it's great and all but there should be a law against it in this case" context.

Frankly the only immoral behavior revealed in this thread has been the willingness of certain people to slander a man's character (even alledging criminal intent) based on something that did you no harm and was completely within his rights to do, and to link that behavior to gun owners as a whole, and to then use that as an attack on the core principles of the free market.

 

[Lone_Gunman]

I thought this forum was about freedom???

It is. I am free to bitch about someone who wants to screw over his fellow gun owners. He is free to make an a$$ out of himself by charging way to much for something.

 

[45Badger]

Much ado about nothing.............

 

[rbernie]

Anyone else sick and tired of threads on a gun forum booing Capitalism and pointing fingers at alleged price-gougery?

I am.

We have quite a few folks on these forums who either do not grok capitalism, or who feel like all people who touch a gun (either to use it or to sell it or to buy it) are somehow part of some mystical brotherhood within which the normal range of human motivations and frailties are somehow suspended.

People sell guns to make money. Making money is still encouraged in our society. Fair market value in a competitive market is set by the buyers, not the sellers, and the gun industry is still quite a competitive market.

People that charge too much don't stay in business long and people that pay too much run out of money. The rest of us need to just get on with our lives and spend less time worryin' about what other people do.