Five Years Later wrote:
Robert White wrote:
Five Years Later wrote:
Some people would be happy with laws telling them how many times they have to poop each day and a gun carrying cop there to watch them.

BTW $200 is a bargain for those GIT DVDs. Most include 500+ comics. That works out to $0.40 per comic which isn't unreasonable for scans of material that isn't 100% available through legal means. Clean digital comics are typically $2 each. If you don't like it then don't buy it.



Nah, I would, however, love to see laws that put a curb to unethical behavior and greed disguised as "free market capitalism." I'm not communist, and don't begrudge rich folk, but it is amusing to me how ethics, and even morality, go right out the proverbial window if money is involved; even among those oh so wonderful Church going conservatives we all hold in such high esteem.

And I have to take issue that it's a bargain since they were originally priced at around $40 bucks a piece. Apparently even GIT and Marvel felt that charging $200 bucks would be too much to justify!

...Also, I don't understand at all how ethics come into play in my decision to list a price for a book.  No one has to buy it.  I'm not colluding with others to jack up the price like Apple did when they rolled out iBooks.  I'm just putting a price out there and if someone wants it they can buy it...

Plus, these are comic books, not food or water. 

I put a first issue of Peter Panzerfaust on eBay at cover price and it ended up selling for over $200. Who should be punished for bad ethics?
When I put a book on Amazon for an inflated price, it's usually because I would rather have the book than a lower amount of money. I don't see how that is unethical.