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To: expatpat
"The simplest and best description is "What the market will bear"."

Exactly and if the market will bear a 30% increase then why is not the price 30% Higher right now?

Do you think the stores competing against the Evil Wal-Mart Empire™ would not jump at a chance to undercut them by using any price advantage they could?

If you and Shadow's assertion are true why then do the price of electronics and computers continue to drop? 6 years ago a state of the art computer loaded with extras from Gateway cost me nearly 3 grand I can buy one with twice the memory and speed and features for half the price now.

Further your example of the Euro has no bearing in this situation. We are not changing currencies we are changing the tax structure. Nice of you to try the old Apples and Oranges trick.

522 posted on 06/11/2005 1:01:29 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg ("`Eddies,' said Ford, `in the space-time continuum.' `Ah,' nodded Arthur, `is he? Is he?'")
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To: Mad Dawgg
Exactly and if the market will bear a 30% increase then why is not the price 30% Higher right now?

If you did it right now, you would stick out like a sore thumb, and get a lot of customer resistance. If you do it when there's a good excuse ("it's the evil NRST that did it") and when others around you are also doing it, it's much easier.

That's why the Euro example is NOT Apples and Oranges. "It's the evil EU Euro that did it", and most others jacked the price, too.

525 posted on 06/11/2005 1:27:49 PM PDT by expatpat
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