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Originally Posted by sapo
It seems like some of these "resellers" are making more off the plugs than the plug builders themselves. Now that's just not right!
Cheers to M & D's, and TimS for limiting how many plugs people buy from them.
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Conversely, I don't think plugmakers do much to stop this by producing plugs in such limited quantities and releasing them in such a way that there is perverse incentive to 'hoard'. Not that I fish BMs and other rare stuff, but if I did, I'd have to hoard to have enough. As far as reselling for profit - I really don't see the argument against it - unless you want to get away from the free market, comrade.
The worst thing about the behavior is that it creates an incentive for the makers to raise prices, but I guess this would only happen until the price gets to a point where they're not fished anymore. Anway that hasn't happened yet as the makers keep the prices pretty steady despite market pressure to raise the price. Also, as long as there are low-cost high-quality alternatives, I can't get that mad. A $50 needle would only be necessary and therefore tragic if there wasn't a $15 Superstrike, for example.
Another unfortunate thing is plugs that sell for >$50 probably don't get fished (at least not much), and that's a shame. Especially when the plugs are available in limited or finite quantities.
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