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Quoted from PoMC:Who cares what someone does with property they purchased? It's a free market and you're supposed to buy low and sell high with any commodity. Used cars, houses, boats and yes, even pinball machines. Never get why another person begrudges someone else from making a buck. Jealously I suppose?
Same as with ticket scalping. You drive up the price for people who actually want it without creating any product or value.
Quoted from mcclad:But people are not forced to buy anything. If they don't buy, the people driving up prices do not profit. If people do not buy scalped tickets, the scalpers eat them. Same with pinball machines.
Sure, nobody is forced to do anything. But people want to buy the tickets/machines, and I don't think it is surprising or unreasonable when people complain about other people making money off of making it harder for them to do what they want.
What if you went the grocery store and every time you started to pick up something to buy, some guy who has been waiting to see what you wanted ran up and grabbed the entire supply, purchased it, and then offered to sell it back to you for 100% markup?
I'm not saying he isn't allowed to do that, I'm just saying he's a dick.
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