Originally Posted by
pallen
The only reason I'm going down this path is to make the point that complaining about bike shops being too expensive is not unique to the bike industry. It seems to be common everywhere. Every customer seems to think every business is charging too much. Some times its actually true, but often not.
There's a whole lot of words here, but not much substance. It's each individual customer's decision as to whether they are charging "too much." Your post seems to suggest that there's some sort of objective criteria for determining it, but there isn't. Deciding that something is too expensive is a purely normative judgment.