donnie_707 wrote:RhA wrote:donnie_707 wrote:no...its your short sighted mentality of buying whatever from whoever at whatever costs. let me give you an example. facts. everytime a super walmart opens, 1.5 jobs are loss due to downsizing from other companies or just straight closure. walmart is able to supply the LOWEST prices on goods because it pays its employees minimum wage with minimal hours(pretty much poverty level). guess where those ppl working at walmart turn to to make up the rest of the cost of living.....the government. or straight to the point....our hard earn taxes in the form of EBT/welfare. i support the local business that works hard to make a living.
did you know that walmart is also the BIGGEST toychain in the world also.....look at how many toys r us that has closed down due to walmart......being a TF collector....would you rather be shopping at toys r us or walmart? yea thought so.
if you think buying from a scalper has no negative impact....then why are we constantly having new threads about scalpers every week? so no....supply and demand is not killing the economy....but your short sighted mentality of buying from whoever for whatever cost is......
so heres a word from a once great leader
"scalpers must be stopped.....no matter the cost"
er....or something like that....
You're comparing the monster that is Wallmart to a single person working (hard) to scalp. Once again, I don't actually like scalping, but I will admit that it is hard work to be effective at it. US culture is based around the idea of merit and hard work, that's what's happening here and it's legal too. Simple as that, Burn is right. It's easy to agree with your system as long as it works for you, it gets tough when you're not benefitting anymore and disagree. So society isn't perfect!
You can do three things logically:
A) Fight the way things are by playing it legal, make sure the market changes permanently by going in to politics and try to pass a law. You're free to do s
B) Fight the way things are by complaining on the internet.
C) Don't bother with it.
How about D) boycotting
"I, a devoted "transfan" enjoy my hobby. My hobby is collecting transformers. I, however, do not have infinite financial resources and so hereby pledge to NEVER purchase a transformer that is currently available to all consumers in the market from any seller whose clear intention in purchasing said transformer was to re- sell it at an inflated price, thereby preying on my desire to enjoy my hobby."
this is what the OP requests that we do....why should we have to pay a marked up price for a toy that is readily available to the market? he is just asking that we NOT buy from scalpers.
Replying only to the Donnie707 stuff:
1-Walmart charges less than toys r us for transformers toys. so why shop at TRU when you can save money & got to walmart instead.
2-Walmart has different levels of jobs. not everyone who works for walmart makes minium wage. with everything in life,depending on your education,job experience,working hard ethic & job refernces,you can make next to nothing at a job or a lot of money at a job. also the longer your employed at a job,the more raises you get & job advances.
3-Do we have any proof that those mom & dad tiny stores pay their workers more than walmart pays it's workers. how about medical coverage,Raises & job advancement? I'm sure walmart offers better medical coverage,more raises & more job advancement compared to a super tiny store does. you can only advance so far when a store is small. most small stores I know don't keep their workers over a year because they don't want to give them raises.
4-It is not walmarts fault stores close down. they close down because they over charge for their merchandise. walmart should be praised not mocked for selling stuff cheap to people/customers. people shop at where they get the most savings.
5-Do we have any proof walmart workers get paid so little they qualify for welfare,EBT,Food stamps,etc..?
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