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Just a General Observation...

Have you found any decent prices? We have several windows that need replacing.
Plus I keep getting calls from Indian gentlemen telling me there is a problem with my windows and that they can fix them remotely.
I got a call from India once. Dude said, "I'm from Windows and we have determined your system is illegal and we need to......." I said that if they know so much about my Windows, What verson am I running and what's my computer's IP?

Next call I got, he had some answers - just BS standard stuff - and proceeded again. I said, "If you're really from Windows and can see what's on my computer, what is my MAC address? Crickets....

Other questions you can ask them.

Did you find where I hide the porn yet? If so, does any of it turn you on?
What are you wearing right now?
Since you're here in the US, Robert, is there any way we can meet up?
Do you swallow?
 
lot's of stupid people in this world. I am doing my part to set the price of AKs at 400 dollars or below. If someone wants to sell me one, that's the price I would be willing to pay.


Prices and wages are the most misunderstood concepts in this county.


One more time for the class boys and gears.

1. Prices are set by the consumer. A seller can price something at whatever they want, but nobody is going to buy it unless you lower the price to a point someone is willing to pay. Lots of relisted guns over and over on this very board prove that point.

2. Wages are set by the wage earner, not the employer. Employers pay the least amount of money someone is willing to do the work for. Don't ever complain about what you are paid since you are the one who set the wage. If you were unwilling to do the work for the wages offered, you wouldn't have taken/kept the job.

I started a reply, found myself writing a dissertation, and stopped to simplify:

We, the USA, and probably a lot of the world, have been shifting from a "supply and demand" to a "what the market will bear" model of economics. Too many things these days are exorbitantly expensive because people will pay for it. So NWSharpshooter NWSharpshooter 's point #1 is valid overall. The problem comes when those high prices become set over time without a valid reason, other than people pay for it. The current housing market is a good example. It wasn't really supply and demand, it was a perception of a market "low supply" and a popularized trend that fueled a demand.

In essence, the recent housing market spike is exactly like the Yeti cup spike of several years back. I know no one wants to admit to this, but, at the very root, that $650,000 house is just like the $150 Yeti cup. And just like the Yeti cup, the value of the house will eventually drop.

As to point #2: Wages. This is also true overall. If you don't like the wage, don't work there. However, if there's someone, or, more often, a lot of someones (i.e. a group) that will work for lower wages, for whatever reason, OR, a group can be coerced into working for lower wages, it drives the market down. The corporate take over of healthcare providers is a great example. One business buys up others, establishes the new wage standard, and voila`, the wages become fixed. I do Locum tennens (traveler / temp) work and I see this everywhere. Some people will work for "security", some out of fear, some for comfort, but a lot of people have a price that is lower than their worth.

Smart phones are a great example of both points: Should an iPhone cost over $1200? Nope, not when it's being made by low-wage / slave labor overseas and Apple can pocket a huge profit off every unit. But do iPhones sell for $1200. Yep, most people just roll that cost into their monthly bill and never think about it, 'cuz, "Hey man, I got the latest iPhone!".

#1: Phone sells because people will pay the inflated price.
#2: Poor Chinese laborers work for a pittance that Americans would be insulted by.
Result: Apple makes huge profits. ( Yeti did/ does it too.)
 
When more "money" is chasing the same or less goods and services, prices increase. There has been a 25% increase in the "money" (i.e., debt obligation of the U.S. government) pumped into a stagnant or shrinking economy over the past two years. More money, less goods and services. What in the **** is it that is so complicated about that and why can't people understand it?
 
Buyers set the price, not the sellers. If you’re going to berate someone for driving up the price, the person you are looking for is the buyer.

This. Look what happened to bourbon. Just three or four years ago $40 would get you a really nice bottle. Now you dumb f***s are paying $175+ for a bottle of blantons. I'd almost rather be sober. Almost.
 
I started a reply, found myself writing a dissertation, and stopped to simplify:

We, the USA, and probably a lot of the world, have been shifting from a "supply and demand" to a "what the market will bear" model of economics. Too many things these days are exorbitantly expensive because people will pay for it. So NWSharpshooter NWSharpshooter 's point #1 is valid overall. The problem comes when those high prices become set over time without a valid reason, other than people pay for it. The current housing market is a good example. It wasn't really supply and demand, it was a perception of a market "low supply" and a popularized trend that fueled a demand.

In essence, the recent housing market spike is exactly like the Yeti cup spike of several years back. I know no one wants to admit to this, but, at the very root, that $650,000 house is just like the $150 Yeti cup. And just like the Yeti cup, the value of the house will eventually drop.

As to point #2: Wages. This is also true overall. If you don't like the wage, don't work there. However, if there's someone, or, more often, a lot of someones (i.e. a group) that will work for lower wages, for whatever reason, OR, a group can be coerced into working for lower wages, it drives the market down. The corporate take over of healthcare providers is a great example. One business buys up others, establishes the new wage standard, and voila`, the wages become fixed. I do Locum tennens (traveler / temp) work and I see this everywhere. Some people will work for "security", some out of fear, some for comfort, but a lot of people have a price that is lower than their worth.

Smart phones are a great example of both points: Should an iPhone cost over $1200? Nope, not when it's being made by low-wage / slave labor overseas and Apple can pocket a huge profit off every unit. But do iPhones sell for $1200. Yep, most people just roll that cost into their monthly bill and never think about it, 'cuz, "Hey man, I got the latest iPhone!".

#1: Phone sells because people will pay the inflated price.
#2: Poor Chinese laborers work for a pittance that Americans would be insulted by.
Result: Apple makes huge profits. ( Yeti did/ does it too.)
You are getting very confused. Your examples of what the market will bear are straight up supply and demand. Buyers set the price ultimately. Especially in the RE market. What the market will bear is set by sellers, and generally on new products. That is how sellers figure out what they should set their pricing to.
 
Cool..another I'm poor thread... :)
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When more "money" is chasing the same or less goods and services, prices increase. There has been a 25% increase in the "money" (i.e., debt obligation of the U.S. government) pumped into a stagnant or shrinking economy over the past two years. More money, less goods and services. What in the **** is it that is so complicated about that and why can't people understand it?
How difficult is it to understand that when the government CREATES worthless electronic scrip in the form of money to buy T-Bills to buy down the debt, or to pay off the NYSE via "government purchase/backing" of home mortgages OR forgive student loans, OR pay for more abortions, OR create tax deductions for their ideological friends and the like that this increase isn't competing with the dollars you have in your pocket?
 
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