Online store prices are outrageously high!

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Ignoring the fact, you have no idea what the specific financial aspects of every SE division and website are, your comment doesn't relate to what I said and isn't even true.

You initially said that if a market supports prices, that means the items aren't over-priced. That was disproved with the Starbucks example which shows companies can have a reputation for selling over-priced goods while staying in business and making profit. When I gave you that example, instead of acknowledging that, you just tried to change the subject to ‘the market supporting the company’.

Do you acknowledge now that companies can stay in business yet still have a reputation for selling over-priced goods? Or are you still claiming that if a company is in business, that means its products can’t be over-priced as the market is happy with them?

And even your new 'point' isn't valid. Many people in the market wait for a sale, many don't buy at all, many will buy less than they would otherwise and so on.

Plus many companies subsidise one part of their business with another. For example, in this day and age, many parts of companies run at a loss for one reason or another. The market has nothing to do with anything there.

Just because a company hasn't gone bust, doesn't mean their business model is good or right or couldn't be improved and just because a website has certain prices, doesn’t mean the market has determined that or everyone agrees with it.

Another example would be that some companies deliberately keep prices high to make items exclusive. There are many reasons why a company sells at specific prices – the market often has nothing to do with it.

Regarding SE, the indication here is that they don’t really care what the market thinks – otherwise they would have dropped a load of prices.

I don't have an aversion to hearing complaints about the price, I'm here, like you, to discuss my POV on how they're wrong. I also like to point out to people that they're being very silly about reasonable prices by providing perspective on what they pay every day/week/month for far less value.

You aren't providing perspective. You’re just copying and pasting the same flawed arguments that were dealt with pages ago. Once again, if Starbucks rips you off for $6 for a drink, that doesn’t make paying $30 for a DLC video game graphic acceptable. They are both bad.

At this point, you’re just posting the same stuff repeatedly using slightly different words. Nothing is going to change. If something you said wasn’t accurate on page 14, people aren’t going to accept it on page 17, 20 or 108. Posting the same stuff is just going to get the same replies which makes for a low quality thread full of redundancy.

You wouldn't behave like this with a cereal company or a lawnmower company selling over-priced products. You have to ask yourself why you're doing it over a video game.