/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>17800262
I feel like you're being sarcastic

>>17800262
>it is bad for me
>I still think it is based
>please rip me off even more

And some mutts try to tell me (German), that I am cucked.

>>17800262
this, but unironically.

http://www.vancouversun.com/touch/accused+vancouver+ecstasy+smuggler+loses+extradition+appeal/6187359/story.html

Same guy
Also amazon banned their account

>>17800262
>N-NOOOOO WE SHOULD MAKE FREE MARKETS ILLEGAL AND LET POOR SICK PEOPLE LOOT THE STOCKPILES OF PEOPLE ABLE TO THINK FARTHER AHEAD THAN 20 MINUTES

good to see the canadian dream is still alive and well. godbless that family.

People should unironically go and seize everything from these people including the money.
It is illegal for a business to do this in a crisis.
It should be illegal for citizens to do it as well.

>>17800262
If I was in US I would buy from them and pay with a bullet in their heads

>>17800360
Plus, almost every packaged product is marked “not for resale”

>>17800369
This is true free market capitalism

>>17800262
This dude is unironcally wanted for drug charges in America and is appealing his extradition

>>17800306
it's called sarcasm, you have autism if you can't pick-up on that, cringe...

>>17800306
>>17800369
>Vancouver, United States
have you people ever tried learning geography?

>>17800500
There is a Vancouver Washington

>>17800500
>have you people ever tried learning geography?
Mexico, Vancouver, Minnesota... I dont care for how you call your cities.

>>17800500
>leafcuck thinks his 40% chink country is any less mutty than burgerland

>>17800319

You can't just make a power move like this in a time of fear. If he would have paced himself and not started gouging right out of the gate, it would have flown under the radar for a lot longer.

Greed is good but you can't be obvious about it.

>>17800262
Capitalism was a mistake.

If there was a reason we needed communism this is it.
That couple would be sent to the gulag and their children would be used for slave labor.
People like that don't deserve to live.

>>17800262
this guy should be fucking shot

>>17800306
God you fucking sperg

this guy should be called based
is this reddit

>>17800324
well to be fair, there should always be an incentive to have as little middle-men as possible in the market.
if that couple wants to sell hand sanitizer so much i suggest they actually PRODUCE some.
no one needs middlemen, they are parasitic in nature.

>>17800262
>>17801148
The only problem here is we removed the proper reaction. Honor dictates you kill this person.

>>17800262
I don't have sympathy for people who burn their own money and then cry about being poor.

>>17800262
honestly i don't care about the resellers, they capitalized on normies being late to the party so they deserve the money

better than some jewcorporation profiting off the normies

>>17800262
But all anyone has to do is go online and order more.
Or wait a few days.

Retarded couple, will lose money on this big time

>>17800306
Jesus, no wonder you guys voted Hitler into power, you have no sense of humor or ability to understand sarcasm or dry humor, everything has to be autistically literal with Germans.

>>17800262
>Guy middle mans like every scumfuck trader does.
>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THIS CAN'T BE ALLOWED
I would like to remind you that every product ever sold has at least 50 niggers like OP's pic dipping into the price.

>>17800262
I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure.

>>17801334
Based agent smith

>>17801242
This

>>17800324
Or you could just set price controls for vital items during an emergency. Anyone caught price gouging would have his stock seized and he would be fined.

>>17800262
In my country they would have been jailed because "jackalism" here is punished with jail time.

>>17801184
Ridiculous. It might not be morally savory or something you would imagine a saintly person doing but it is not theft or parasitism. This is the free market and consumers are allowed to make choices with their money as the wish. The freedom to use resources to acquire goods is the basis of a free market economy. To say that these people are parasites is to say that anyone selling anything is a parasite for not just giving it away at or below the cost to produce it.

I am not an advocate of this type of behavior but to disallow people to trade goods freely is to disallow freedom of trade. Nobody is forcing consumers to purchase their overpriced goods and there are alternative outlets that are selling cheaper options even now.

anyone else literally jerking off to the market chaos. i don’t care about health and safety because i can get off to it

>>17800262
>stores in heavily impacted places empty
>stores in middle of no where with less cases still with supplies
>anon sells supplies where they arent needed to people panic buying in states more effected by corona
We sure this wasnt just markets working properly?

>>17800262

You're aware that the manufacturers still exist and are supplying stores regularly?

If a group of armed men found them and robbed them blind I wouldn't care since it's the exact same behavior

>>17801184

The incentive is that less middlemen makes things cheaper. Like buying directly at costco.

>>17802552
They bought in solely in the high impact areas around vancouver.

Well if I was living there and there were no wipes left because some guy bought $70k worth to resell higher, then it would be an appropriate time to go bash his head in and take some wipes. People don't do that because we live in a society where we expect "someone" to do something. It's kinda like bullying.

>>17802552

Yeah, that's exactly how things work except in the empty heads of the communists who never mentally left their family structure. Which usually consists of an absentee father and an abusive authoritarian mother figure that provides and claims to do it out of love.

>>17802568

They robbed the costco?

>>17800262
Lysol wipes are meme in the first place. They're just convenient but it's more potent to use diluted liquid bleach or diluted foaming disinfectant. That's what hospitals use and it's WAAAAY cheaper. This is simply a lazy retard tax and I'm okay with that.

For all of the retards who are crying and did not prepare.

>>17802631

They didn't produce the product. They weren't even the original merchant. They sought out a particularly vulnerable collective of people during a time of unique crisis that threatens everyone, and put their health at risk by taking all of the supplies and marking them up 4 fold.

I'm an individualist first, but that doesn't mean collective morals and identity doesn't exist. If another person was putting the health of my countrymen at risk during a time when people need to band and work together (i.e. during war-time) it's a patent moral affront and I'd consider them cancer and a threat to the group. Same thing as a criminal.

Morals don't disappear just because capitalism exists. There are old and sickly people who have a hard time getting to the store and finding things as is.

Let's say someone did this in my area and now my grandparents and parents couldn't get supplies, and this was a real near-apocalyptic scenario. Yes, I would personally grab my gun, find where they live, and strip them blind, and I could use the same excuses they're using to do it. "It's just capitalism bro XD", "LOL u should have invested in a gun when you could have XDD"

So what’s the problem?

No one is forcing people to buy at the high prices ?

>>17800494
Germans are all autistic

>>17801334
>agent smith was basing his theory on niggers instead of whites
Lmao once whites settle on a plavmce they stay there until its ruined by niggers.

>>17802713
>Yes, I would personally grab my gun, find where they live, and strip them blind

>>17802839

>Look mom, I'm defending some greedy faggots seizing products from the elderly who could literally die from this highly contagious pandemic, I'm such a capitalist hero

>>17802713

Ah, so you're one of those "might makes right" moralists. Got it. You punish voluntary interactions you don't like with violence. I bet you wear Che Guevara or Pol Pot shirts too.

>>17802872

No no, they bought stuff from a store. They didn't do anything to any elderly people. If anything, those elderly people had MORE time to prepare for life.

>>17800262
Seethe more bitch nigga

>>17802713
>"and put their health at risk by taking all of the supplies and marking them up 4 fold"
Are you fucking retarded? those are fucking wipes, no one is at risk by not having them or not not having TP, people just buy this stuff because of the psycologycal sensation of being "safe", if someone actually needs some desifectant they can just use diluted bleach or rubing alcohool.

>>17802877

Nope. I understand nuance and the real importance of collective cooperation in times of serious crisis. If there ever is a moment when people need to work together, it's things like a pandemic or war. If that doesn't happen, your country is doomed. I know this isn't necessarily a "code red" situation yet but it's a dry run, basically, and guys like this show their colors early on. There are some things that are inarguably morally reprehensible, things like murder, assault, coercion. He is putting his community at serious risk for his own gain, that warrants reprisal.

>>17802894

"He bought stuff from a store", no you mean "he bought everything from the store knowing he could create artificial scarcity at the very worst time and force vulnerable people to pay him (or not be able to afford it), putting the welfare of his community at risk for his own gain." You do realize you are still a human being even though you live in a capitalist system, right? Do you have any honor at all or are you a proud cretin? Socialists are cretins. People who abuse their community and put lives at risk for their own gain, knowingly, are cretins as well.

>>17802996

Really? Has he cornered the entire market with a 70k purchase so that there are no alternatives? Are you on drugs or do you just like your little robin hood power fantasies?

>>17802937

They're disinfecting wipes, which when used properly can in fact work better than anything you mentioned and create a safer environment. Doesn't have to work every time, just once, they're precautionary. As I said in the other comment this isn't necessarily a code red situation, more like code orange, but it's a good time to air out how reprehensible this kind of behavior is when there is a non-trivial chance that it could hurt somebody downstream.

>>17803034

He has cornered his local market, people he should care the most about. Older people can't just drive around forever until they find something, and they're terrible at using the internet. If something they've had access to regularly for decades is suddenly gone they may be hard pressed to find it again. In that time period, who knows, they could fail to prevent an infection.

Are you so myopic that you can't understand what I'm saying here? He's directly targeting his own community. That's faggot shit. Be a man you fucking scumbag.

>>17800262
>NOOOOOOO NOT THE PRICEGOUGERINOS! NOT THE POOR HECKIN PROFITEERS! NOOOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T STOP SCUM FROM MAKING A CRISIS WORSE FOR EVERYONE AROUND THEM NOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>17800500
You are retarded

>>17802872
ok reddit

>>17803064
>genociding boomers
Idk, sounds based to me

>>17803036
>it's a good time to air out how reprehensible this kind of behavior is when there is a non-trivial chance that it could hurt somebody downstream
Ok, fair enough, agreed, but i still think is silly that people would still buy from them when there are alternatives, i mean, if no one buys them price gougers will end up with a loss and give up.

>>17803172
>>17803195

>I have no family and am a fundamentally broken rat person on par with your common ChapoTard

k. At least you're relegated to keeping your shit on the internet since I know you wouldn't have the bravery to straight up drain your local Wal-Mart and try to peddle that shit on a street corner at 4x markup.

>>17800262
They're probably in a pickle like pic related right now

>>17800306
The Schwarze Null of understanding sarcasm.

>>17803064

>Oh no, not the [VULNURABLE GROUP HERE]
>better start robbing, murdering and raping

You understand that there can never be a moral rule that says "I have a need, therefore I get to use force" because the other person would have a need not to get robbed?

Imagine for a moment, the US fiat dollar collapses and the gold/silver standard is reinstated as per the constitution. Are you going to rob people who stored metals to redistribute it to "people in need" who didn't prepare for such an eventuality?

>>17801334
Sorry mr alien but you need to laser beam the niggers doing all that shit you write about. I just want to live in peace.

>>17803266
Seethe harder boomer

>>17800306
>a germanfag cannot understand sarcasm
not surprised at all

>>17801334

Just to debunk this wonderful piece of fiction, look up the deer in yellowstone park. When all the wolves were killed, their population exploded and they would have turned the entire park barren if not for the reintroduction of the aforementioned wolves.

What keeps natural populations in check are competition and predators.

>>17800262
I don't know about leafland but it's probably easier to get a reseller license/ wholesale permit and buy for way less than retail (and no jew tribute). Dickheads could've 3x'd just at normal prices, and with no labor throwing individual boxes, just a moving some pallets.

>>17803313

You are ignoring context. We understand that this person appraised the situation, saw his community was going to be directly impacted and in dire need, and jumped on the opportunity to scalp them. We can deduce that he is morally bankrupt, on top of being a threat to general welfare. Therefore it is acceptable to use force against him, which is on the same moral level. Understand?

I'm a fucking landlord. I know how tankie logic works, but this is different. There is a time and place where collective needs surmount that of the individual and war/pandemics are two of those. Or else what is the fucking point of living in a community, and a nation? Duh.

And you can't eat metals. As I said, this is all about context because morality is contextual. This man KNOWS disinfectants are in serious need right now and he KNOWS people who don't have the means to disinfect their house are at particular risk. It's cancer, no way around that.

>>17800500
Vancouver is a city in Washington state on the border to Oregon. It's not a big city, but it is right next to Portland and not a far drive from Seattle. That's a pretty key location with regards to Coronavirus. It's a comfy town, I've been to a Chinese buffet there before.

>>17802418
Yes but they're not simply using resources to acquire goods, they're creating barriers to entry by leveraging having more available capital to profit off of surging demand for basic goods and services.

Call me a commie but necessities have no room for profiteering, leave that to making things like televisions and coffee and appliances and shit not fucking hand sanitizer during a pandemic.

>>17800262
Thank you for this post OP, there are people who genuinely think like this, that anyone who takes advantage of other people is based

>>17800262
based capitalism

>>17803278
Good, fucking morons.

>>17803366
It's a quote from the tranny trilogy.

Woah.

>>17803266
plus the internet gives me access to a much larger market who will bid the price of my wares up even further

>>17800262
Fools attempting usury. In 5 months when it becomes near avoidable to catch this AIRBORNE virus, this couple is going to be sitting on a bunch of overpriced disinfectant.

>>17803370

>I'm a fucking landlord.

So you are scalping THE most important human need, living space. I hope someone applies your morals to you.

Fucking white people baka

>>17800262
>>17800324
>>17800360
>>17800369
>>17800500
>>17801148
>>17801294
>>17802675
>>17803374
>>17803370

I don't hate them for hording supplies, I hate them because they aren't white. So many fucking chinks and shitskins in Vancouver, I seriously hope Corona chan deals with them

>>17803395

If "the internet" lets you, babyhands. Amazon has already started restricting this. Too bad, code your own website. I guess every community has their genital warts.

>>17803409

Nope. I'm not a profiteer, I'm at market rate, and I pay a mortgage and upkeep on this property. I provide a regular and routine service that people aren't hard pressed to have to use. My tenants can leave at any time while I'm beholden to this property and its fate (depreciation or disaster). Nice try though.

>>17800262
why am I not surprised the man in the picture looks like a jew or arab, just saying. perhaps pol was right after all.

>>17803437

So you are not making a profit? I now understand why you wouldn't answer the precious metals scenario.

>>17803454

This house is my investment, it's a long term thing that I am not profiting much off of at the moment due to the costs I mentioned, and anyone is perfectly capable of getting into themselves. I have to fix things personally on a bimonthly basis. This is my second job. It is not tautological to this situation at all no matter how hard you're going to try to do it now to gotcha me.

All I'm getting from this is that your confusion is a direct result of autism and the incapability of understanding nuance and context.

>>17803496

At what point does housing become scarce enough to justify violence against housing scalpers?

>>17803415
nobody cares about what you hate or what you want you mass replying retard

Price gouging is a good thing. Economically illiterate faggots fuck off

>NOOOOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T JUST BUY ALL OF THE HAND WIPES IT'S NOT FAIR
>YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO THINK ABOUT ME BEFORE YOU BUY SOMETHING FROM A STORE WITH YOUR OWN MONEY
>I WAS TOO BUSY CALLING IT A NOTHINGBURGER AND LAUGHING AT PEOPLE WARNING ME FOR MONTHS ON TWITTER WHILE IT WAS STILL IN STOCK

>>17800262
>hustlers
That’s not hustling at all.

>>17803537
Deez nuts, nigga.

>>17803537

At this point, scarcity is due to lack of building, and that is due to overregulation. Buying a house as an investment isn't personally seizing on a crisis to put the literal lives of your community at risk at the worst moment. You know exactly what I'm saying you just want to dance in circles.

>>17803556
So when something becomes scarce it's better for the market, holocaust makes much more sense now.

>>17803496
>I can’t make a profit therefore no one should

>>17803591
Read this retard

>>17803591
Diamonds are artificially scarce, nobody complains about the people, organizations, and countries that contribute to the artificial scarcity. Get over it

>>17803610
Nice libertarian nonsense, retard. Sowell is a retard. He will never accept racial differences because he's black and won't accept his inherent inferiority

>>17803595

There is a difference between

>buying and maintaining a home for other people to live in in general

and

>buying all of the food at your store during a famine and marking it up 5x
>buying all of the food at your store during a war and marking it up 5x
>buying all the disinfectant at your store during a pandemic and marking it up 5x

Let's say a fire burned down half of my city. Let's say I snapped up 5 of the last available houses and jacked up rent by 5x. Yes, that would be a comparable scenario. Outside of that, I'm a normal market contributor, just like Costco, or Amazon, or Geico. I have a modest profit margin and I put time and work into what I'm doing for someone else's convenience. That's all I've got left to say on that.

>>17803589

I know you casually justify violence for nonviolent actions, but do not wish to engage in the same scenario slightly altered with you as the victim. You're a hypocrite, plain and simple. You borrowed money from the jews so you could deny people housing unless they paid you. You didn't even buy it with your own, hard-earned cash. No, you borrowed property through as a middleman and are now profiteering off of this usury while acting like some moral champion.

But you want to punish nonviolent actions with violence. You're no different than these people. Millions of young people can't get proper housing because people like you keep buying investment properties with money you don't have.

>>17803621
Your grandma won't die because you couldn't buy diamonds you colossal fag.

>>17803643

>DURING a famine

How? Wouldn't everyone already be scrambling for food? Sounds like that's something you'd need to do BEFORE the famine. Or in an area where the famine hasn't hit.

>>17803673
Your grandma deserves to die if they were so low IQ that they just sat there and watched it explode in China and didn't react at all.

>>17803668

>I know you casually justify violence for nonviolent actions, but do not wish to engage in the same scenario slightly altered with you as the victim. You're a hypocrite, plain and simple. You borrowed money from the jews so you could deny people housing unless they paid you. You didn't even buy it with your own, hard-earned cash. No, you borrowed property through as a middleman and are now profiteering off of this usury while acting like some moral champion.

Imperiling your community during a time of acute crisis isn't "non-violence", it's harmful behavior. I saved up for 2 years for the down payment on this home, spent 2 months working on it personally to get it up to speed, and now rent it out to a couple who left their previous place because the landlord was jacking rent on them while I've done no such thing. Again, nice fucking try. You're a moral cretin and you're not going to turn this on me.

>>17803633
Free market solves racist problems. We see that ALREADY happen. Why do you think that there are so many people trying to relocate nogs to predominantly white areas?

>>17803415
>I hate them because they aren't white
You talk like an sjw.

>>17803673
Sorry brother that's the free market, if grandma doesn't plan ahead or have a closeknit family to help her out that's her choice

>>17803643
>maintaining a home for other people to live in
Do you let other guys fuck your wife too?

>>17800262
BASED

WAHHHHHHHH I DONT LIKE PRICES

>>17803716

There is nothing to turn. You are immoral by your own rules. It is unfortunate your lack of abstract thinking disables you from applying generalized rules you created to yourself, which disqualifies you from discussing morality.

I'm fine with you renting our properties you maintain with your own labor and money. I'm fine with people buying things and selling them in other places for more money. I'm morally stable because I adhere to the non-aggression principles which is simply not initiating force against others like you've proposed repeatedly here.

People always justify their actions somehow
>self defense by claiming victimhood in every situation
>defending "groups that can't defend themselves"
>putting themselves in a class above humans through "divine right" or similar mechanisms
>dehumanizing others
But in the end you're nothing but a thug who robs people

>>17803814

You're an extremist with no capability for nuance and don't forget it. Trying to act like I'm the one "lacking abstract thinking", lmao you have your simple, context independent rules on a stone tablet and refuse to budge from them even if it means your neighbors die. Faggot.

But I know you're just a product of comfort and convenience. You wouldn't be so "principled" if this was directly targeting you or the people around you, I'm speaking from a position of foresight while you're speaking from a position of convenience.

>>17801184
distribution is not inherently parasitic.

>>17800262
They made money, but everyone hates them now and they might be prosecuted down the line.

Bad trade.

>>17803739
End yourself brainlet. Conservatism and owning le essjaydoubles is peak retard ideology. Conservatism is inherently weak and just does half the progressive stuff that le esjaydoubles do to appear reasonable. It's for pussies. Racial identity is not something you can just hand wave away or fix with DA FREE MARKET XDDD. People are rejecting the old dichotomy of capitalism vs communism and embracing a much older and more organic identity, one which is based on identity

>>17803421
Ebay works just fine.

>>17803377
Look I respect your sentiment and personally I agree. I would never sell necessities at a premium during a real crisis. However this is the same logic of supply and demand that underpins legitimate business tactics in non-crisis times. Capitalism is not a system of morality it is just a system of allocating scarce resources with alternative uses. My argument is not that this behavior is admirable or should be encouraged, it’s just that these are the rules of capitalism even during the best of times. The biopharma industry in general is a great example of these types of practices.

Wagyu beef is more expensive than grouch chuck because more people want it. This is the same logic behind more expensive sanitizers and toilet paper.

>>17800262
>scarce resource gets bid up
Yeah that's the point retard, literally econ101. I'm glad you have no power to influence things in real life.