In a message dated 3/18/00 8:34:10 PM !!!First Boot!!!, richardb@c2i.net writes: << This I do not subscribe to... This has nothing to do with the free market, unless one is totally devoid of morals. If you take an old ladys Steinway for 500 knowing its worth 5000... thats about as fraudulant as it gets.. and personally I hope, from time to time, that the Christians of the world are right about at least one thing... namely that there is a heaven and hell, and that such folks will find their way to the appropriate elevators when the time comes. A free market is an honest one. Dishonesty falls into another catagory. Robert Morss wrote: > >If I sold my $5000 used Honda to some old lady that didn't > >know better at a 5000% mark up for $250,000 > >is that not fraud, and have some legal ramifications? > >$440 for 16 tuning pins for parts only??? > >Is there no accountability in this business. > > > > David Renaud > > It is called the free market. If the same old lady is selling her Steinway > grand for $500 and you come to buy it, are you committing fraud if you don't > tell her it actually has a market value of $5000? > > Robert Morss RPT > Greenwich, CT -- Richard Brekne Associate PTG, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway >> I would like to go one step further that what Richard just said. Not only is it dishonest, it would be against the Mission and Principles of the PTG, where we are to "always aim to provide service in an ethical way, keeping the piano user's needs and best interest uppermost." (Art. I, Sec. B.6. PTG Bylaws.) Wim
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