Tom C wrote: >Does not the seller, a very large retailer at that, have some >responsibility?
Yes: The retailer has the responsibility to provide goods at a price which provides good value to the customer and a fair profit to the business. They owe this to the original customer, to their employees, and to their other customers who will, after all, cover the expense of items sold at a loss in the form of overhead that's passed on to everything else they sell. What's happened is that the customer/business relationship is now regarded by many people (and businesses like my "friends" at Cambridge Camera Exchange) as an adversarial one: The sellers thinking, "How can I get people to buy crap and pay too much for it?" and buyers thinking "How can I take advantage of a misprint or mistake to get them to sell this at a loss?" Even a business transaction as simple as a basic purchase should be cooperative, not adversarial, and both parties have a right to a fair exchange of money/product. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
