Text books = extortion

[PandaBear]

The same textbook that they sold for $120 here is only $30US in Hong Kong. Same, not the brown paper Indian version, not international edition.

So how do you expect them to justify it other than the "we have to make a profit to publish" or "fixed cost" thing? The only justification is they think we can afford it with the US living standard.

I should start a business importing textbook from Hong Kong.

 

[Gary Allan]

Originally Posted By: PandaBear
The same textbook that they sold for $120 here is only $30US in Hong Kong. Same, not the brown paper Indian version, not international edition.

So how do you expect them to justify it other than the "we have to make a profit to publish" or "fixed cost" thing? The only justification is they think we can afford it with the US living standard.

I should start a business importing textbook from Hong Kong.


That's not how it's viewed.

Examples: Drugs, arms, and ag products here. Butter and milk (at least, up until recently) in some European nations.

You price your domestic product to pay the bills. You sell off your surplus production capacity at reduced cost or at cost.

That's why Danish cookies are cheap here. They're importing butter. I'm sure that it costs more to buy Danish cookies at home.

They do it at my local utility. I'm paying for a $4B nuke plant so that South Jersey can buy the surplus power for $0.25 off of the grid.