Originally Posted by
nat8808
That's fine if you are offering a service on top (refurbing etc) or even if you are buying at a below average price and selling at the high end of average - you're making something out of your ability to find under-priced items or getting lucky with auctions or being rewarded from taking risks on dodgy looking auctions that others stay away from, or bothering to pick up in person on collection only items. In any of those, you are changing the same from one that people don't want, to one that they do want (have confidence in etc).
That's not what I was talking about and I don't think Mr Kipling was either.
What I was talking about - and this applies to any other commodity or resource - is making something artificially scarce in order to then falsely convince people that they MUST spend loads in order to obtain that item. Or to artificially raise the price so that there is price propoganda through repetition (you only ever see the over-priced item and then 'learn' that it's value is the high one through repetition).
That is akin to someone placing a dam upstream of a river and telling the villagers downstream they must pay more for their now scarce water and have it delivered by tanker from the resevoir created behind the dam..
Maybe you feel that is just a 'free market' doing its job?
