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Dan S
·Let me ask: do you have first-hand knowledge of what the seller paid for the watch? What if you learned that he over-paid for it, and at the currently listed price, if received, he would have still have lost money? Would he still be greedy?
The problem here is the use of a word that implies one knows someone else’s intent. It could be “ambitiously priced,” “quite a bit over market” but these things can be proven or disproven. Don’t call someone greedy unless you have the complete backstory. And if you know he picked it up cheap, and told you or a friend that,”I can’t wait to make a killing on this thing by seducing these over-enthusiastic Ed White collectors,” then I stand corrected.
This feels largely semantic to me, but I take your point. My common sense tells me that this is a very experienced dealer who probably didn't overpay, but I don't know that for sure.
And in the interest of total accuracy, if you want to be very careful about semantics, I will note that in my previous post, I called "the pricing" of this watch "a bit greedy", which many people would interpret as an informal way of saying the watch was overpriced. I did not actually say that the dealer is greedy per se.
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