I realize I was an economics major, but it’s still annoying to see your consumer surplus taken away. Though, technically, it’s not my consumer surplus anymore since the price now outstrips my willingness-to-pay.
I had the Watchmen comicbook in my Amazon cart – it was maybe ten, twelve dollars. It has been recommended to me for a while and hey, the movie’s coming out. Damn movie coming out … I went to add in some other plane-ride type reading and the price of Watchmen had more than doubled. Argh. That’s what I get.
The thing is, I might rather pay MSRP or SRP or whatever we’re calling the price printed on the back of books at some smaller comicbook store in Old Town Alexandria, say, than pay twenty-two and change to Amazon. It’s not like anyone really thinks homo economicus exists. Well, expecting perhaps a few of my more irritating friends who obviously went through schooling but perhaps came out educated only in being a disagreeable douche who likes to argue for argument’s sake.
There are other sakes to work for, people! Like getting me this stupid book.
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