Sun May 23 01:11:29 CDT 2010 Boris Liberman wrote: > On 5/23/2010 1:57 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: > > No corporation that consistently cheats it's customers will survive. To > > do that you need a gun and the unrestricted will to use it. Otherwise > > customers will flee to another haven. Free markets are free, and the > > worst offenses happen in the markets that are most controlled. > > Peter, I can give you a number of counter examples in my country.
Boris, - one doesn't need to go across the ocean: Most PDMLers know a bunch of NYC-based "photo stores" that range from "bait-n-switch" to "charge-n-send-nothing-or-crap" scammers. Those have existed (or had existed) for many years. Some of them are located in mid-Manhattan, some in Brooklyn. (One can easily spot them here based on reviews: http://photo.net/neighbor/subcategory-index?id=2 ) Resellerratings.com is yet another good source for finding long-living resellers with consistantly bad reviews. Peter: In a large enough market, - the influx of fools feeding crooks is large enough (practically infinite) to support long term "stagnation" of the latter. (Besides, - strictly speaking, - there are no "free markets". - Practically all "free" markets are regulated to some degree, as truly free markets are not sustainable long term. - But that's a subject for a separate and pointless - within PDML - discussion.) Igor -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
