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Scalpers hurt anyone launching a hardware product who doesn't have the order quantity to buy direct-from-manufacturer.
by the__alchemist 5y ago
Scalpers hurt anyone launching a hardware product who doesn't have the order quantity to buy direct-from-manufacturer.
- chrisseaton 5y agoI don't get how it hurts anyone to have to pay market rate. If your product doesn't work at market prices, then that's your problem - not scalpers.
- yxwvut 5y agoThis kind of perspective where any intervention-free (often equated with 'free market') outcome is ipso facto a socially good outcome is so frustrating because it transcends policy discussions into morality/dogma. Are you opposed to efforts to curtail rent seeking more broadly?
- lmm 5y agoMaking honest prices illegal is the most destructive intervention you can do. "Scalpers" aren't rent-seeking, quite the opposite.
- the__alchemist 5y agoI think you'll find most electronics products available to be unprofitable if they had to use these scalpers as suppliers.
- sannee 5y agoI, for one, am happy that I can get enough parts for a prototype run even if at 5x the price. Especially as otherwise, those parts would just get sold to the car manufacturers and would be used to make ethically questionable products.