This is the right response that's all too often missing from these threads. If you want "free-market" you should deal with its basic premise that consumer pays

This is the right response that's all too often missing from these threads. If you want "free-market" you should deal with its basic premise that consumer pays as little as they can and seller tries to milk the consumer as much as they can. That's quite literally how it's supposed to work. I'm very much in favor of bringing some morality to the economic system, but it shouldn't be one sided.