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11-30-2010, 07:57 AM

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Originally Posted by WingsToDiscovery View Post
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.
An item is worth the value someone is willing to pay for it. A 100 yen box of Pocky is worth 4 dollars to a kid in Kansas. Do you want to make a 300% profit, or do you want to allow someone else to make it?

There is nothing immoral about selling something for a profit as long as the purchaser knows what they are buying. The immorality is when you deceive the buyer.

No one is forcing you to buy Japanese Kit-Kats, but if you are the person that wants to buy them, then $13.50 is not a bad price.
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