Amazon sellers marking products as collectible to get around price gouging rules

Re:Amazon sellers marking products as collectible to get aro... by coryrc on Friday May 29, 2020 @03:28PM (#23354442)

Isn't that what people have already collectively done in cities? It takes $2k/mo to live in Seattle. The land I live on is valued at 5x what the house is worth and I'm not allowed to build an apartment on it.

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Re:Amazon sellers marking products as collectible to get aro... by WalterBright on Friday May 29, 2020 @03:36PM (#23354537)

> collectively done

I.e. the market, not a monopoly.

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Re:Amazon sellers marking products as collectible to get aro... by coryrc on Friday May 29, 2020 @03:44PM (#23354627)

That's what we've outlawed -- we've outlawed all gas stations and supermarkets from raising prices regardless of monopoly. They have diverse ownership.

Tripling prices of TP so you don't hoard during a shortage seems less detrimental to society than locking generations of working class people from being able to ever join highly-productive areas.

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Re:Amazon sellers marking products as collectible to get aro... by renewiltord on Friday May 29, 2020 @06:20PM (#23356223)

I guess with a land value tax you can be sure the land is being used economically efficiently. As it is, the land is being used inefficiently. So I suppose it’s a market, just not an efficient one.

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