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

Re:Amazon sellers marking products as collectible to get aro... by WalterBright on Friday May 29, 2020 @06:47PM (#23356504)

I went to dinner once with friends. One friend asked his date what she'd like for dessert. She said crème brûlée. He called the waiter over, and said please get some for her. The waiter said they didn't have crème brûlée. My friend said, you don't understand, she wants crème brûlée, and I'll pay for it. The waiter reiterated that they didn't have crème brûlée and couldn't get it.

My friend finally said you don't understand. I don't care what you have to do to get crème brûlée, and I will pay for it.

The waiter said I understand, and shortly came back with crème brûlée. He had ordered it from another restaurant and hired a taxi to go get it.

The waiter got a nice tip, and my friend's date enjoyed crème brûlée for dessert. Everyone was happy.

And that's how "shortages" work in the free market.

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Re:Amazon sellers marking products as collectible to get aro... by JoeAltmaier on Friday May 29, 2020 @10:38PM (#23357988)

In the modern world, there's just one source of many products. All the jeans in the world, from Korea. All the memory chips from a few factories.

All the anecdotes about going down the street for homely puddings, have little to do with the larger markets in the modern world.

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Re:Amazon sellers marking products as collectible to get aro... by WalterBright on Friday May 29, 2020 @11:28PM (#23358231)

And yet the only time we have shortages is when the government steps in and fixes the price and/or the supply.

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Re:Amazon sellers marking products as collectible to get aro... by JoeAltmaier on Sunday May 31, 2020 @08:38AM (#23369180)

Completely false and deliberately argumentative. Try harder.

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