Is it unethical for a disc golf store owner

[ru4por]

A butcher buys a cow, sells all cuts for the price of ground chuck. If he decides to sell the more popular cuts, like tenderloin, sirloin for more, is there an ethical dilemma? Profit=greed? Profit= unethical? OP is either trolling or......man, I am having a hard time figuring out how to give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe, like he is trying to increase engagement in DGCR on a football Sunday, by generating conversation. Maybe I missed the point.

 

[natedg1976]

Says the biggest supporter of MVP, a company that sells discs for cost to ANYONE (32 disc minimum) lololol.... I almost choked on my cake

Actually, if I remember right, they are no longer doing this. Even if they were, that's the way it should be. They should be selling to someone that is going to retail them. Now, at least with MVP, you have a chance to buy discs at a decent price. Unlike Legacy. I just got my first legacy disc. Another coming. Only reason is I found a private seller willing to give me a decent price. I don't know how or why, but the Legacy collector market is even crazier than Innova. And really, the discs are not all that special. Just a few select people buying up as much as they can on release making a false high end market.

 

[Streets]

This is going to end well.

 

[shawny0123]

I believe the feelings that this is a greedy move is based upon that this store has done things a certain way for a long time, whereas it might have been some of the employees stashing away the hottest items for themselves as they unloaded the boxes and not the owner. The employees who did this were often doing it for their personal purchases; flipping for a profit was strongly discouraged and may even had an unspoken rule of being a fireable offense.

Regardless, store police shifted recently. The overall stock is still tremendous, but certain colors and dyes have seemingly become more bland. Before when some of the employees may have stashed away a few things, it was so sporadically done that it may not have impacted the overall stock of hot and cool items (if 50 limited edition items came in, how would the consumer know that 3-4 were pulled aside?). The difference now is that everyone knows that the hot items are being pulled out for the purpose of flipping, and it is being done by a store owner that for years and years seemed hands off of the inventory. Before he was willing to do anything, willing to bend over backwards, to get business in the store, but now the shift is towards sustaining the business and making it profitable.

This makes my brain hurt

 

[natedg1976]

This is going to end well.

Most of these threads do.

 

[DavidSauls]

This is going to end well.

It didn't even start well.

 

[Stankyjahnke]

Why would you rip yourself off? Private sellers by tons of discs when the new runs come out and resell them what's the difference.

If I owned a play it again sports I would be making a lot more money on the discs people trade in.

 

[natedg1976]

Why would you rip yourself off? Private sellers by tons of discs when the new runs come out and resell them what's the difference.

If I owned a play it again sports I would be making a lot more money on the discs people trade in.

Quoted for truth. Although, I have heard some of them are wising up. Then you here whiners saying "Oh, they only gave that guy xxx dollars and now they're selling it for xxx." Big flipping whoop. We are a capitalistic society. That's the way it works. You buy at xxx and sell at the highest price people will pay. That's just business.

I have done it more then once. The best was trading a S-PD that I hated for a pre Avery s/ds. Used the destroyer twice and then sold it for $35.

 

[Old Dog]

I'll pose a rhetorical question to the OP.

Let's suppose a friend or relative of yours landed a job at a DG shop and when something cool came in a shipment from a manufacturer/distributor he set it aside and called you about it rather than put it out on the sales rack with the other discs. Would you snatch up the treasure or, because of you're strong sense of ethics and fairness, would you tell them to put it on the sales rack so that everyone has an equal shot at it?

Yeah... that's what I thought.

Ethics is like two people trying to eat jello with chopsticks. it just keeps wiggling this way and that and neither one can get a firm grasp on it.

 

[WhiteyBear]

Anyone who complains must have zero clue how much anything costs in reality.

This isn't communism, or socialism, it's free enterprise capitalism, get over it our do it better yourself.

 

[natedg1976]

Anyone who complains must have zero clue how much anything costs in reality.

This isn't communism, or socialism, it's free enterprise capitalism, get over it our do it better yourself.

:clap::hfive:

 

[sunkissd]

I'll pose a rhetorical question to the OP.

Let's suppose a friend or relative of yours landed a job at a DG shop and when something cool came in a shipment from a manufacturer/distributor he set it aside and called you about it rather than put it out on the sales rack with the other discs. Would you snatch up the treasure or, because of you're strong sense of ethics and fairness, would you tell them to put it on the sales rack so that everyone has an equal shot at it?

Yeah... that's what I thought.

Ethics is like two people trying to eat jello with chopsticks. it just keeps wiggling this way and that and neither one can get a firm grasp on it.

Im a pro at eating jello with chopsticks

Sorry....anyway....cant we all just get along? Haha

I know if I owned a dg store and received extra special/unique discs, I would put them up for auction for non locals, to have an equal shot. I have bought many discs online due to that. Also, a lot of you guys on here (well most) do not live near me whatsoever, but have discs I want for different reasons. Thankfully, you guys put them online for people like me!

 

[1978]

Stores get stuck with unsaleble inventory all the time. Sometimes they have to mark it down...why shouldnt they make more money on discs that people want, if they have to take a loss on that people dont. Totally fine to mark up discs and get what you can for them. If they do that too often and they lose business its their risk. Some stores elect to sell plastic for MSRP regardless of the value it could get online, and they build a loyal customer base that way. It all depends on your market and customer.

 

[Aim For The Chains]

well you can still build a loyal customer base by not under cutting everyone's pricing to do it.

That's all I really see.

How does that build a loyal customer base at all? Reminds me of renterswarehouse.com.

 

[bballr4567]

Im pretty loyal to about three guys. One online place, the local PIAS (guy even holds the good used discs for me) and the local seller who just does it as one of his 19 jobs. None of them completely undercut other places I just happen to like them and to do business with them.

 

[Toro71]

unethical adj.: any action by a person or entity in a marketplace that reults in their making $ that I myself could have made with the same action

 

[Lewis]

unethical adj.: any action by a person or entity in a marketplace that reults in their making $ that I myself could have made with the same action

Sarcasm?

 

[ru4por]

Stores get stuck with unsaleble inventory all the time. Sometimes they have to mark it down...why shouldnt they make more money on discs that people want, if they have to take a loss on that people dont. Totally fine to mark up discs and get what you can for them. If they do that too often and they lose business its their risk. Some stores elect to sell plastic for MSRP regardless of the value it could get online, and they build a loyal customer base that way. It all depends on your market and customer.

I wonder does the OP finds this unethical, when the change benefits the consumer? I think this is a great point.

 

[Tim_the_Enchanter]

And if you good folks in Minnesota don't recognize your selves in Maceman's dialogue. One word comes to mind: Snelsoning. Proof that bucket crabs are still around and that they are cannibals that won't hesitate to eat their own.

I remember that Maceman letter when it went out, and it sadly still is true. It's one of the ironic juxtapositions of the sport--it's great because of what the players make of it, but it also is continually stymied from the players as well. I'm not familiar with the Snelsoning reference--can someone clue me in?

 

[wkelly42]

I'm just wondering if this "evil" brick and mortar store is one of those that routinely ship free goodies (minis, stickers, etc.) in with orders? Wow - those guys are so greedy, we need to shut them down!