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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Seems the way they are doing it those billionaires will soon become millionaires...
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One would hope they get the message.
Gerry Harvey who owns Harvey Norman, a large chain of stores that sell electrical to furniture and who has a personal wealth over a billion dollars, claimed a couple of years ago that online buying was a fad. This was not long after he was selling the iriver Story, claiming he was the ebook "specialist".
He led the retail wingeing team, running off and demanding the Feds help them out. The public backlash was huge, so he whined some more and shut up for a bit.
Still, some clothes retailers are charging customers to try on clothes now, in fear of the said same customers going off and buying the item cheaper online.
Really though, to ensure that retail and distributors do not continue to price gouge some form of revision of retail trade laws need to be undertaken. At least that way, the rip-off, price gouging prices we are paying for ebooks can be resolved as well and these companies exposed for the thieves they are.