Cyberus wrote:
that_punk_guy wrote:
To buy it is stupid, to sell it is exploitative and wrong.
IMO.
To buy it is stupid?
Do you mean that someone would be stupid buying it because they're paying over the odds? Otherwise why is it stupid?
Yeah, I think anyone who pays that much for a parking space when they could do so much real good for the world with that money needs their brain checking.
To sell it is exploitative? Well, I suppose it depends on your politics, but selling something and getting the going rate for it isn't exploiting anyone, is it? The person buying isn't being exploited unless they HAVE to buy (a life saving vaccine for example).
If I sell something on ebay, and someone bids more than it costs new, I fail to see how I'm exploiting them. It was their choice to buy it, regardless of how silly it might seem to you.
Well, I suppose that depends on anyone's personal interpretation of what the word "exploitation" means. Maybe I have a wide definition of it. You can exploit teenage workers, expolit security bugs in Windows, exploit elderly pensioners...
The eBay thing isn't so bad, in that you're not setting the price. If someone bid ridiculously over-the-odds, I'd cancel the bid. Just my personal feelings coming into play, but I just wouldn't be able to sleep at night. But the way I see it, Harrods are taking money from people who really should know better, but apparently don't. They're "exploiting" their weaknesses.