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Back in 2012 when Hurricane Sandy hit the NY area, there were stories about multi-hour waits for gasoline. I thought that made no sense - gasoline was available everywhere outside the storm area for regular price. I was half tempted to rent a pickup, buy out the local Benny's of gas cans, fill them all at the local Quick-E-Mart, and make the 3 hour trip down to NY. Sell a 5 gallon can for $50, make a profit, and save some poor schmoe the hassle of waiting in line for 3 hours in exchange for an extra $30 out of his pocket. Nope. All sorts of stories on the news about how NY was watching for people "gouging" by charging more than "normal" pricing. OK, I'll stay home, and the 100 gallons of gas I could have added to their local area stayed in MA. 20 people wasted a cumulative 60 hours of their lives, but their government saved them from voluntarily paying me extra to bring them some gas. A thing is worth what someone wants to pay for it. That goes for gasoline, food, cars, what have you.
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set your calendar and ping me in 6 mos
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yes, lets do it. how about this. loser donates 10$ to charity in the other guys name? i say 10 cause i dont think charities can take 1.
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Let people charge whatever they want. I'm not putting a gun to anyone's head to make them pay $100 for a loaf of bread. And if you can charge $100 for a loaf of bread, there's going to be trucks of bread being driven in by everyone and his brother to fill the need. And once there are truckloads of bread at the location and the few people willing to pay $100 a loaf have bought them, the price on the remainder will drop. But, no, economically illiterate politicians will prohibit actions that would guarantee the shortage would end as quickly as possible. And economically illiterate voters will continue voting for them, thinking they've been "protected", when in reality their situations have been made worse.
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Agree with you that these parts may be more expensive today but if they are mass produced over time they will be available relatively cheaply in the future. |
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But it does show the problem with lawyers. Everything needs a law to control it, and they're all vain enough to think they can determine just what level of control is needed.
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Ha! you're gonna need to turn off your PM. Actually I'll take your dollar right now and you can Set your calendar for your 6 month fail date. I can guarantee you right now that there will be dealers still getting their FIRST M2 Allocation in about 6 months. I received my South Carolina 1M allocation in June and took Euro delivery in September of 2011 and when my car arrived in OCTOBER 2011 it was that dealers first and only allocation. |
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Hey, I've been to your dealership. A couple years ago we were on vacation in Ft. Lauderdale and one of the crap run flats on my wife's 535 did the normal crap run flat bubble thing and you guys threw on a new tire for us. Good service, although expensive!
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Babies can't drink milk.
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I think his point is that it stops extra supplies being brought in even if the price is high. Is a $35 jar of peanut butter better than no peanut butter?
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I'm trying to think what we would do to someone from the North coming down and trying to gouge us with 10 dollar a gallon gas after spending days and weeks without power, not being able to drive around due to poles and trees snapped and blocking the road everywhere, having people steal mower gas out of sheds, wondering about food supplies, and having friends and relatives living in your basement due to their houses becoming unlivable. What would we we do... Hmmm... |
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Agreed. Buying 10 loaves of bread is rediculous also.
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100% agreed. especially since most of these events gets resolved in a few days (.e.g snow storms)
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As opposed to, you know, letting adults conduct private transactions without outside interference. Granted, that doesn't provide sufficient opportunities for graft for the government, and it prevents the control freaks from letting their inner fascists free.
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