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Right. Have you considered perhaps that there's entire industries out there plagued by organizations that use automated tools to muscle out consumers from acces
by jterrys 3y ago
Right. Have you considered perhaps that there's entire industries out there plagued by organizations that use automated tools to muscle out consumers from access of general goods with with no intent of using those products themselves and only act as an artificial intermediary to resale said goods and inflate the price for their own benefit? This plagues concert tickets, shoes, clothing, computer parts, sometimes evening necessary goods like cleaning wipes and toilet paper.
Are those people just good hard working honest capitalists that create a market opportunity and deserve to use their products as they damn well please too?
- ryaneager 3y agoYeah, that’s a problem the FTC should solve and not the companies selling goods. An individual should not be restricted on reselling their own goods.
- pfannkuchen 3y agoOkay but the FTC isn’t solving it so you expect a company who thinks this is a problem to do nothing? Anyway how would the FTC solve it? Instead of having a contractual agreement between individual parties, you would prefer the government to ban something? This would for sure end up restricting free exchange more than one-off agreements like this.
- carstenhag 3y agoScalping is a big problem, sure. But in this case, I don't see the problem. Tesla could (and perhaps does?) limit selling 1 or 2 Cybertrucks to each person. Of course you could ask your friends to reserve one for you, but this is a lot of hassle and more involved than buying a lot of toilet paper/oil.