ORIGINAL: Dr1Driver
but when a dealer on EBAY advertises a MINIMUM or BUY IT NOW above the typical retail value AND it's not a rare/hard to obtain piece, that is IMO a CROOK.
If it's not rare or hard to locate/purchase elsewhere, there's no reason for anyone to pay the inflated price. He's not necessarily a crook, he just wants more for the item than it's worth. Nothing wrong with that, people try it every day. It's possible he bought it, hoping the price would go up, so he could sell it at a profit.
Look at people recently paying thousands of dollars for this little Japanese game that's just come out. They gotta have it NOW, NOW, NOW!!! And they're willing to pay for it. The Japanese are masters at marketing, and use it to their advantage. In a month, there will be thousands of this item in the stores.
How many people flock to a "first run" theatre to see a movie at $7.50 a pop, rather than waiting for it to show up in the "second run" theaters for $2.
Nothing crooked about it, it's called "the open market". No one forces anyone to buy.
If people are willing to pay...
Dr.1
I'm not talking about people who are introducing NEW products and nobody is required to buy it like you said but the seller is IMO in this case still a crook because he is selling a product at a price he knows is inflated and depending upon fools to buy them. Preying on the fools, as it were.
As for the idiots running out to buy that stupid game. Forest Gump would say: Stupid is as stupid does. They definitely are getting the screwing they deserve for buying that crap. I've never bought a video game in my life and never will (aside from what comes built into a computer). Pay $500-$600 for a video game system? Let alone what some are paying on EBAY. Rediculous. And I watch my movies at home where the cable bill is sufficient damage.