>: I am still peaved that RAM prices have doubled overnight seamingly
>: their cost from the distributers has gone up. Something is very fishy.
>
>Ok the same thing has happened here in New Zealand...two weeks ago i could get 1meg simms for NZ$60 and this week they are $80....the reason i was given was
>something about the Korean ram haveing a higher import duty imposed on it in the States and that all the importers where now chasing the Japanese produced RAM
>So with everyone getting the Japanese RAM the prices have gone up..Supply and
>Demand I guess...
NO! Not supply and demand; you are unfortunately paying for the result of
the U.S. Government initiating the use of force to collect fees for which no
service of value is provided, i.e. you are an indirect victim of extortion.
In the U.S. now, rather than act to secure individual rights (the sole
purpose for which it was chartered), the government "works" by granting
benefits to one group at the forced expense of others, in this case
certain business interests found it easier to complain than to compete.
Granted, the Koreans were "dumping" at below cost, but people who are not
so shortsighted would realize that "what goes around comes around". The
kneejerk reaction, unfortunately, was to initiate the use of force in order
to placate a body of future votes for those in office. This means that we
all lose; once more the well-being of the producer being sacrificed at
gunpoint (figuratively) for the well-being of the parasite.