The difficulty of selling a Wii

[sinha]

twesterm said:

sinha said:

 

 

You're creating a false dichotomy. It's possible to "help people" (indirectly) without having an "altruistic motive"...

In fact, it happens all the time and is essentially the basis of the free market economic system that has proven to be quite effective at getting goods into the hands of those who value them.

Heck, Nintendo has a completely selfish and non-altruistic motive for making the Wii and selling it for $250, yet they are helping millions of gamers by doing so.

The thing is though is that Nintendo is the one who decides the price since it's their hardware. CDude isn't the one makign the hardware, he's just being a middleman and needlessly jacking up the price.

Almost every product has middlemen who jack up the price.  And they do so for a very good reason.

Cdude is a middleman, he's jacking up the price in exchange for providing a service (giving someone the ability to buy a Wii that they apparently can't get for the listed price).  If that person could get a Wii for the listed price, he wouldn't be providing them with a useful service, and no one would be willing to pay him the extra money (as is apparently the case right now).