>Neither of those accomplishes the goal of being able to purchase the product or service without being ripped off. I'd argue that its impossible to totally do

>Neither of those accomplishes the goal of being able to purchase the product or service without being ripped off. I'd argue that its impossible to totally do that since humanity has never figured out how to remove scammers from the population. It is the way to fight back against it so I think that is really splitting hairs on complex sociology-econmic explanations. Do you really want to continue do business with a company ripping you off?