By which I mean "yep, that's the effect of NOT raising prices in the event of a shortage". I don't disapprove of those rising prices - that's like disapproving of a rising water level because of heavy rain.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Calvin Dodge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:caldodge@gmail.com">caldodge@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Exactly so.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Phil Bridges <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gravityhammer@gmail.com" target="_blank">gravityhammer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Brian J. Murrell <<a href="mailto:brian@interlinx.bc.ca" target="_blank">brian@interlinx.bc.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 15:30 -0400, James Hall wrote:<br>
>> Not so much cashing in as a lot of production capacity is down, so<br>
>> there's less of a supply but demand is unaffected, driving the prices<br>
>> up. It's econ 101 really.<br>
><br>
> Yes. That's called "cashing in". Those $140 hard drives are no more<br>
> expensive to manufacture, stock, distribute and finally sell than they<br>
> were a month ago at $80. The only thing that has changed is supply has<br>
> been restricted, giving everybody in the supply chain an opportunity to<br>
> increase their prices and make more money at the same cost of goods, and<br>
> handling.<br>
><br>
> It may be econ 101 but that doesn't make it any less cashing in on the<br>
> tragedy of a natural disaster.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>Perhaps they should just sell out at the normal prices, and have no<br>
hard drives for a while.<br>
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