Thank you randy.

I actually put a lot of thought into why this particular situation annoyed me, I'm a logical person, mostly . I understand markup and making a profit, I ran a business for 20 years. Buy something and sell it for more, right?

We know that this happens to us every single day, we know the products we buy cost the seller less than what we are paying. The main difference here is that we KNOW what the flipper paid and what the markup-for-effort eventally became. I doubt we'd shop anywhere charging retail prices if the retail outlet posted their unit cost of what we were purchasing.

There is a reason companies take extreme measures to keep their wholesale prices secret. It's good business.