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Forum: General Talk
10-19-2011, 10:13 AM
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OK, let's ask the question relative to photography. When the exchange rates and pricing across the globe favors it, there is a lot of grey market camera equipment etc coming into a country. Is that a good thing, or bad? And to whom is it good or bad?
If we, say, go onto a well known auction site and purchase bits from China... ones that undercut legally imported and supported bits, is that bad? What if Pentax doesn't make a manual focus viewfinder screen? Or Pentax USA/Canada (for example) doesn't distribute the official M42 adapter?
We could say the grey market goods take jobs from our country, reduce the viability of the dealers and importers we depend on... on the other hand we can say grey market goods keep pricing honest.
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Forum: General Talk
10-11-2011, 06:55 AM
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...one explanation I've seen for the change in crime rates is that the baby boomers used to boom as teens and young adults... and then the baby bust reduced the numbers of young people who are most likely to do crime. I don't know if that's valid though.
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Forum: General Talk
10-06-2011, 01:34 PM
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...except that the American economy needs immigrants to continue growing for the benefit of us all...
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