Post #233140 by Thomas on Sun, May 21, 2006 2:33 AM

This thread has been dormant and maybe I should just leave it so, but I guess I can't resist questioning the premise of it and basically endorsing Humuhumu's point of view, expressed above. What on earth is the downside of someone having chosen to purchase this product, then subsequently choosing to sell it? The upsides are multiple, and obvious, among them just two being: 1. the chance for a good to pass from the hands of one willing to part with it to one eager to receive it, and 2. the opportunity for a current market price to be established, and this becoming public (i.e. free) information for anyone interested.

With no unfriendly intention whatsoever, I have to add that I find this:
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...who had set #31?
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very ugly, yet illustrative of the logical outcome of this sort of scolding, prohibitionist line of thought.

[ Edited by: Thomas 2006-05-21 02:35 ]