Free market

[Doc Spock]

I am thinking of travelling to Gloucester and Tewskbury and taking lots of bottled water to sell.

I can buy them at 50p per litre and sell at �5 per litre.

Is this morally wrong, or in line with Mrs. Margaret Thatchers principles.

[B00]

I wouldn't bother, I'm sure they have more water down there than they know what to do with.

[DONNA1458]

The Red Cross will be doing this for free!!!

[Doc Spock]

But is it wrong to capitalise in this way.

[theonlyone]

Yes it is , people shouldn't make money out of other peoples misery . That's what a pikey would do and run off with the change and your belongings !!

[B00]

Why don't you just do a Del Boy and bottle tap water? That way you save yourself the 50p per litre as well.

[Doc Spock]

Great idea Boo, I am on to it rightaway.

[Whickerman]

It's exactly what Thatcher would've approved of. It's supply and demand, and the ultimate in free market forces.

Is it ethical? Of course not. But that never stopped the yuppies in Thatcher's and Reagan's 80s.

[Ethel]

I don't remember the yuppies cashing in on desperation though.

I am truly disgusted with the lootings and overcharging of essentials. A mother in tears because she had to pay �5 for water to make her baby's bottle is very wrong.

[Whickerman]

Hi Ethel

Course they traded on desperation, also on people's pensions, homes and jobs.

But regardless, even though it'd be wrong wrong wrong, the sales Doc mentions would surely have the old blue bigot's seal of approval.

[Shadow Man]

"people shouldn't make money out of other peoples misery"

What a strange thing to say.

Guess you object to every medicine available then. All insurance companies, all debt agencies, all divorce lawyers, etc etc etc etc.

Stupid ting to say.

Good idea in principal spocky, but as said, it will be available for free.

Absolutely nothing wrong with the free market economy at all. If the next man sells it for �4 a litre even better. Competition is what makes the economy tick over.

[fine,thanks]

who is mrs margaret thatcher ? has she been flooded ?

[theonlyone]

Now who is Shadow Man sounding like ??? Can it be Joe in disguise as Dr Spock was asking about him earlier , and I said he was a nightmare , so will have a go at me if it's him . So watch the post >>>

[fine,thanks]

oh nooooooooooooooooooo.

[Black Noir]

I dont see anything wrong in it - Ive made a mint over the last 2 weeks with my travelling Dingy and Sandbag van

[dyli795]

You lot kill me you realy do : >]

[newlywed]

i dont think your wrong at all doc.. look at all the pictures on the news at most of the houses round the area thats been hit! there not little terraced houses there huge detached eye sores, so i pressume that they have got what they have by ripping people like me and you off and thought they would live happy ever after, how wrong are they.. ive got a van doc .....do you need a hand?????

[cambus]

I have done some market research on this Doc.
Teenage girls will still want to look cool, carrying a bottle of water, whilst wading through the sewage. Charge about �10 (small bottle only) even more profit.
Mothers with young children, who are in receipt of tax credits can probably afford about �8.
I would leave it at �5 for old age pensioners as they are liable to kick up a fuss and write to the Daily Mail.
Every cloud does have a silver lining, as Mrs Thatcher and her son Mark know full well.

[nellypope]

It's called profiteering, I believe, when the large profit is unjustified or morally wrong. But yes it takes all the fun out of free enterprise!

Interestingly enough the first person EVER to be placed in stocks and publicly humiliated was the chap who invented "Stocks", he was accused of Profteering. ;-)

[hundreddolla]

Water?!!? What these people need are essential things like mobile phone credit and gold jewellery. Or chicken nuggets and chips!