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Originally Posted by MMM
He fills a market for people that want stuff from Japan, but don't know anyone who lives there. Smart businessman.
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Oh, I definitely understand his business practices (it's what I'm in school for after all lol), and from a purely business standpoint he's extremely smart for capitalizing on a relatively untapped market due to it's exclusivity. I was just commenting on the moral aspect of selling things I can find at the 100 yen store for four times the price. I understand he has to make money somewhere, but come on now...
When I see something like this it actually always reminds me of this story of when I was back in high school. One of the jobs then was working for a video game store. One of the things my manager always reinforced was the ethics in business more so than the moving of products. Because we were selling such expensive hardware, my manager always impressed upon us to do the right thing and not try and sell something like 4 controllers to a grandmother who is trying to buy her only grandchild a console for the holidays or whatever, because it's totally unnecessary.
I know that's sort of a different scenario, but having proper business ethics is still really important. According to this site it's gonna cost me $13.50 if I really want to send a small bag of Kit Kats back home to my family LOL.