Price gouging is illegal? Who said ? If some willing clutz is willing to pay
a willing seller $5000 over the odds that's just simple economics !
jh
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Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 9:05 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] Another overpriced 3Ti on the 'bay
> Chris,
>
> I'd never pay that for a 3Ti and yours (and mine) 4Ti in most respects
> gets
> the same job done but one thing you're overlooking is the law of supply
> and demand. I was involved a bit in VW's research in the 90s into whether
> they should market the "New Beetle". (I was wholeheartedly for it) I
> also saw
> firsthand after it's sales introduction people running around who just
> "HAD TO" get one for their wife or kid approach new owners and offer them
> $5,000 over list price if they'd sell theirs to them. Same thing several
> years
> back with the Toyota Prius. They were so wildly popular that Toyota could
> have priced it $5,000 higher and still sold a similar amount. But price
> gouging is illegal so the best they could do is price a used one that was
> on
> the lot and could actually be bought that day higher than a new one that
> the
> buyer would have to wait 3 months for delivery.
>
> Same thing went on for years with Harley Davidsons. Dealers would charge
> you $1,000 just to be put on the list to be offered one when they arrived.
> But there'd be a long wait. I have a friend who used to buy one every
> year
> and turn around and immediately sell it to someone else on the list for
> $1K
> to 2K more than he just paid for it.
>
> George
>
> In a message dated 3/10/2010 6:17:09 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> olympus-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> Zorki and Leica are not made in the same factory by the same company
> using
> many of the same parts. The OM-3Ti and OM-4Ti are.
>
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