Originally Posted by RobbieTunes

Some questions:

If you read an ad in the newspaper, for a car that is overpriced, do you notify the editor?
If you read a classified ad in one of those trader publications, do you notify the publisher?
If you walk onto a car lot, and a vehicle is priced at double NADA, do you call the mayor?

Why then, do we feel we need to take action when a bike is overpriced on CL?
What gives us the right to judge prices in classified ads?

Perhaps I didn't get the memo.

It's not an emergency situation, like with gouging after hurricanes.
It's a bike. It's priced by the seller, subject to the market's desires.

Is there some kind of rule out there that: "Thou must charge only prices that the internet public agrees with " ?

Perhaps we are so quick to criticize is because we can do it anonymously, and remotely.

I'm not defending the prices, but I do think it's a free country, and last I checked,
the government was not appointing price police. I'm sure that's coming; the price of votes seems to be going up.

I agree with the irritating "highest bidder" seller, but they were around in classified ads, too. Just say no?

I simply don't buy things that are grossly overpriced unless I have to (medical care, dentistry, HVAC repair, jewelry).
Other things, I avoid buying.

It took me 100x as long to write this as to make a buy/don't buy decision on a bike on CL.