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Pastorbottle
·I always find it odd that buyers love the idea of a discount over MSRP, but react with horror when the actual market price is over the MSRP. The MSRP is an artificial (Suggested) price set by the manufacturer, it usually is higher than what the market says the price should be based on supply and demand, hence the often discount. Sometimes, particularly with makers such as Rolex, AP, PP and a few others the market says the price is above the MSRP, so that is what the product is marketed at. No one believes the true market value of a Rolex Daytona is the $15,100 Rolex says it is, it's well above that. A manufacturer does not set the market value of their product, the market sets the value. That's just the way the world works. When governments, or dealers, or other middle men try to force the issue the loser is always the end customer. This ruling won't increase the supply of Rolex watches either online or in stores, nor will it change the ultimate price. All it does is muck up the free market and allows the government to transfer a lot of money from the private sector to government coffers to help fund their operation.
Such cynicism! 😲
Of course you’re correct, to a point…………this will in reality change little, the corporate lawyers will be finding ways around it, probably even finding a way to use it to their advantage.
In fact to only beneficiaries will the government coffers and of course the lawyers themselves. ( those parasitic bastards always seem to come out on top! A Jihad on lawyers!)
The trouble with the law is that the legal system is such a ponderous lumbering beast, often hamstrung by the government which is even less agile……..as opposed to the corporate sector which in comparison seems absolutely athletic!
Although in reality the corporate sector is also slothful, just not as slothful as the legal system or the government.
The government coffers will probably only benefit from what will probably be only a fraction of the amount that Rolex had already avoided in tax revenues anyway.
But as for mucking up the free market? I don’t really see how.
The free market probably needs shaking up to a degree, if anything fucks shit up for the bastard speculators then some good will’ve come from it………but as with all these things it will probably just make things more difficult for every other poor bastard!
