Yeah, all I read here was blah, blah, blah. Charging a price you don't agree with is not theft. Such a claim is lacking all logic and poor thinking at it's worst.
Yeah, I'm well aware you have an intense dislike of me. So you want to split hairs, just to start an argument. But what you're really doing is talking down to me for your own devices and self aggrandizement , under the pretense of "educating me".
Let's go with a different tack,"you're just so educated and proper, and you have no idea just how eternally grateful I'll be for that". I would have never figured out the difference between , "a customer transaction", and "price gouging", or, "thievery", on my own. Should I write what I've learned from you down? I'm sorry I made that heinous error, and I won't ever make it again. You've straightened me out, big time, thank you, thank you, and thank you again. (I went with "thank you" three times", so you can claim a "hat trick". (No need to thank me, you earned it!).)
Provisionally though, I think you're obliged to buy your next copy of Windows from Newegg, instead of buying a key for $20.00 or less. You know, do that "simple customer transaction". And try to remember to be happy knowing that they've given you "a great deal", and that you should be gosh darned "grateful" they did.
Let's put our differences "aside", and play some more "entertaining" word games. Did you know that "Zorro", means "fox" in Spanish? Wasn't he the guy who robbed the rich, and gave to the poor? Times have sure changed, haven't they?
Anyway, let's suppose we're playing "Scrabble". I don't have 2 "Zs" or "2 Os". I only have 1 "Z" & 1 "O". But wait, I do have an "E ". What can I still spell?
Speaking of word games. Amazon sold over 1,000 of these last month. It's nice to know that robbing the poor to give to the (ostensibly) already rich is en vogue . In fairness it is discounted from $55.00, and >
it's made in
America< So, why don't you help kick start our economy? Buy two, one for yourself, and one for any possible significant other?
Back we go to the semantics. Besides the multiplicity of reasons that I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. Let's assume I bought one just so I could delude myself into thinking I'm part of something. In the past,somewhere in the back of my minuscule unknowing mind I'd be thinking, "I wuz robbed". Then I would suddenly realize, it was just a typical "customer / business transaction". And I'd have you to thank again for my "enlightenment".
"MSRP" is a strange convention. in that it's an entirely arbitrary number that someone potentially pulled out of their a**. or close to it. It's hard to explain that to a crew, that a minority of whom, would pay double MSRP to someone just for the opportunity to covet say, a video card. If If someone "forced me to do that", I'd feel I was robbed, and I'd think the person that, "forced me to do that", was a thief. No more though. I'd know it was just a "simple customer" transaction".
