Wednesday, April 18, 2012

How can someone think the world is running fine...

How can we as the people let this kind of thing go by.

"The U.S. Supreme Court will hear an appeal from a Thai student who was fined $600,000 for re-selling textbooks. Trying to make ends meet, the student had family members in Thailand mail him textbooks that were made and purchased abroad, which he then resold in the U.S. It's a method many retailers practice every day. 'Discount sellers like Costco and Target and Internet giants eBay and Amazon help form an estimated $63 billion annual market for goods that are purchased abroad, then imported and resold without the permission of the manufacturer. The U.S.-based sellers, and consumers, benefit from the common practice of manufacturers to price items more cheaply abroad than in the United States. This phenomenon is sometimes called a parallel market or grey market.'"
It's okay for multi-million dollars company to do it... but when an individual who find a way to make ends meet does it.. he's fined more than he will be making in half of his life?Am I the only one of getting frustrated over this kind of behavior?

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