On Sun, 27 May 2013, Liam Proven wrote:
On 27 May 2013 01:17, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
Taking advantage of people is sleazy. The old
guy got taken advantage of,
plain and simple. If "that's capitalism", then capitalism is sleazy.
No, hang on. At $40 he's been ripped off. At $400 he's been ripped
off. At $4000 he got a bad deal but the device made a decent profit
(assuming he bought it new in 1976 or whatever.)
At /forty thousand dollars?/
I think they're referring to the guy that bought it for $40,000 and then
resold it for more than he got it for from another guy a few moths prior.
Come on, I bet there are places in the US you could
buy a house for $40K.
--
Liam Proven ? Profile:
http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile
Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven
MSN: lproven at
hotmail.com ? Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven
Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 ? Cell: +44 7939-087884
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net/ Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Experiments