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Is it against policy to sell software ABOVE retail?

It's not against policy to offer something at an inflated price. No one is forcing anyone to buy it.
Being a dealer implies that you have a quantity of an item. If he was selling 5 copies of WoW he might fall afoul of being a dealer, but not 1 item or 2 different items.

It is, however, against the following rule:
If you think the asking price is too high, or you want to make a lowball offer, contact the seller via email or PM.
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to "thread crap" by publically criticizing the seller's price.
 
You're thread crapping, plain and simple. You made a general assumption about what the seller was doing and injected your moral stance on his thread. You need to follow the advice in your own signature.

Maybe his prices are higher since he's shipping from Canada to the US? Nothing wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with him setting his price high...most of the buyers probably wouldn't bother anyway.

I sold CE copy of WOW on Ebay for $140 a few weeks ago. According to you, that make me a bad person, but according to me, it's called supply and demand.
 
Nothing in the rules against it. People sometimes sell their used video card, hard drives above Newegg.com's price.

There were few people trying to sell their Nintendo DS for way above retail price. Its funny now, my Target has ton of them and people still try sell above retail and the forums.

WoW is going above retail price cause Blizzard didn't anticpate the amount volume of gamers they were going to recieve, so they ask retailers to stop selling it. E-bay prices are pretty high also.


Its pretty much up to the buyer if he/she feel its worth the price.



 
Thanks for your feedback. I appreciate the information on the forum policies and will edit my posts accordingly.

I do still feel that in a special cases, he rules of supply and demand- or laise-fair- (sp?) economics are prohibitively punitive for fair market practice. My brother can not afford Wow, I wanted to play with him, so I wanted to get a second copy of the game. It was sold out all over the nation due to server issues- which is fine and ok except that all the copies were then scalped immediately by dealers who did not give anything to the developers efforts to fix the Server issues.


Scalping may or may not be wrong morally. I could care less, but it sucked not to be able to play.

Have a good weekend.
 
I understand your points, but prices on the FS/FT forums will always be controlled by the buyers. He could set the prices as high as he wants and bump his thread for days, but no one is going to bite if they aren't interested.

I think his prices are more than reasonable when you factor in shipping between countries. I just sold a motherboard to a user in Canda, and 2 week shipping was $18. Then, on top of that, Canadian customs opened it up and gave it a value of $200 (instead of the $40 value I declared). As a result, he had to pay an additional $35. 🙁

Damn Mounties 🙂
 
Value is determined by how much a buyer is willing to pay for an item. If he asks for a high price and people are willing to pay for it, don't see anything wrong with that. As long as there is a willing customer, there is a sale.
 
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