Agreed. What the market will bear.
When you come right down to it, the topic applies to anything that is
for sale and is ridiculous to call it a RBW list topic just because it
speculates on the value of bikes. How is the original post not "off
topic" when it really has nothing specifically to do with Riv stuff?
On 7/26/2011 12:34 PM, Peter Pesce wrote:
It should cost as much as the market will bear.
Bike building is a for-profit enterprise, not a charity, and there is
no morally-correct value to a bike.
That being said, I do agree that there is a place for value judgments
in HOW a company makes the bike and sells it, that involves labor
practices, environmental effects, and ethical business practices in
the marketing and sale of the bike.
And, in fact, those are just product differentiators, and many buyers
will choose exploitative over ethical if a seller needs to charge more
for the "ethical" and can't convey that added value to the buyer.
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