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Car makers like Jaguar Land Rover and Peugeot have been accused of using special software to raise spare parts prices.
Source: https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/04/car-makers-used-software-to-raise-spare-parts-prices/
Ever had the nagging suspicion that your car's manufacturer was charging outrageous prices for parts simply because it could? Software might be to blame. Reuters has obtained documents from a lawsuit indicating that Jaguar Land Rover, Peugeot, Renault and other automakers have been using Accenture software (Partneo) that recommended price increases for spare parts based on "perceived value." If a brand badge or other component looked expensive, Partneo would suggest raising the price up to a level that drivers would still be willing to pay. It would even distinguish parts based on whether or not there was "pricing supervision" over certain parts (say, from insurance companies or focused publications) to avoid sparking an outcry.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 05 2018, @06:44PM (2 children)
Under socialism everyone eats nutraloaf [wikipedia.org]. Under capitalism everyone shops at a grocery store with a limited supply of a wide variety of products ranging in quality from "fresh organic" to "bulging can with foreign lettering" where only one person is allowed in at a time and the entrance line is ordered by wealth in descending order.
Under socialism, everyone is guaranteed a meal that never changes which they may not desire to eat. Under capitalism, the 0.01% get the best of the best, the 0.99% get the rest, and the 99% either risk getting sick from eating garbage or starve to death.
Shove your capitalism up your ass. If nothing else it will give your head some company.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 05 2018, @08:31PM
Everything I've read on the matter leads me to believe it smells of socialism up there, right down to the brownshirts. Capitalism gives you the freedom to starve but there's food on the shelves. I've never seen many socialists trying to emigrate to socialist countries, victims of socialism trying to escape socialist states is another story. Crony capitalism and corruption should be the target of our ire, charging people what they are willing to pay in a system of voluntary exchange should not.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by suburbanitemediocrity on Wednesday June 06 2018, @01:33AM
How does the food the 0.0001% eat differ from that of the rest?
It sounds like you've never been to a grocery store in the US. I don't know how you are coming up with "a limited supply", other than physical constraints of an infinite supply. Not only that, but there's amazon where you can buy just about anything in the whole world or get a ton of wheat delivered to your garage if you want @1.15$/kg. My friend told me that everyone there ate a loaf of bread a day/person (about 1/2 kilo each).
http://www.montanaflour.com/bulk-orders/ [montanaflour.com]