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The price of Princess Parrots

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Subject: The price of Princess Parrots
From: david taylor <>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 20:00:41 +1000
All pretty simple really - where theres a buyer prepared to pay the price 
theres always a willing seller!   ........... Good luck to them - if they can 
earn $2250 bucks for a few hours work and someones prepared to pay them then I 
say well done!


cheers David Taylor


On 30/11/2010, at 7:23 PM, storm wrote:

> Australia is a market based economy more or less, sellers get to set their 
> price - that's the capitalist market place.
>
> If people don't want to buy at that price point then either sellers' lower 
> their price or we have to assume they are happy with the amount they are 
> selling.
>
> There isn't any utility complaining about it or saying they are making an 
> excessive amount of profit or they could make more profit at a lower price 
> point. That is really no different to me wanting a shiny nice new car which I 
> can't afford. Would it be reasonable for me to argue that the car company 
> that makes my chosen car reduce the price so I can? Of course not (well it 
> would be nice).
>
> There are very few things in Australia that are price controlled by the 
> government. Cost is usually set by the market place. I can't see any reason 
> why people who have a scarce and precious product/service/ resource shouldn't 
> set the price they want - bearing in mind that the price might in part be set 
> to deter people so they are not overwhelmed with visitors.
>
> cheers
> storm
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