Originally Posted by
base2
Nobody said Americans deserve a price break. We deserve a functioning free market capitalistic economy.
Why? Why should the U.S. get to determine business law for the rest of the world? After all, we have tariffs and trade agreements which distort the supposed “free market” just like every other nation. Why should U.S. ideas about “business fairness” determine the laws in other countries?
We don’t have a free-market economy in the U.S. right now. Ask, say, the people who make solar panels. Ask how they feel about oil companies getting cheap leases for drilling, and tax breaks for “exploration” of resources which properly belong to the entire U.S. population.
Originally Posted by
base2
The problem is the arbitrary boundarys drawn to carve up a single market for profit maximization. .
Shimano doesn’t draw the boundaries. Individual nations of trading blocs do.
Originally Posted by
base2
I just can't believe people are ok with being bent over a barrel. It's just not right.
Apparently you Do think we deserve the lowest possible prices.
ECON 101 , for people like yourself demanding a “Free Market Economy”: The seller sets the price. Whatever price. The seller charges As Much as the seller wants … in a free-market economy.
People either buy or do not buy. If the seller decides, the seller can raise or lower the sales price to make more profit per unit or to try to stimulate sales.
So … Shimano charging different prices in different markets is EXACTLY the “Free-market Economy” you think we should have.
Hello.