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December 12, 2005
Yea Capitalism
I'm missing the part where "efficiency" is connected to "free markets".
Another example. I bought some hard drives at Staples on Black Friday for $30 each. I stood in the cold for an hour, fought through a horde, and captured my prizes. I absolutely had no intention of using them, and instead was going to sell them on Ebay. The retail price of them regularly was $120, FYI. On Ebay, they were going for (and went for) about $70 each. Which, FYI, is enough profit to pay for my hotel in Vegas, our share of gasoline, and snacks on the trip there and back. And the way I see it, there are a lot of people out there who don’t have access to a Staples, or didn’t choose to get up at 5AM to stand in the cold, and those people still saved $50 per hard drive by buying it from us on Ebay. They win, we win. Life is good. Yay capitalism.
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Posted on December 12, 2005 02:43 PM by Office61.
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