How do they stay in business?

darsben wrote:

empty_nest wrote:
I needed to order a battery box vent cover. Mine has just gotten brittle and broken from years of sun and weather.

Found the exact replacement part on Camping World online store. I'm thinking "super". $5.50 +. Went to order and was floored with better than $15 for shipping. Are you friggin kidding me?? A piece of 4X4" plastic that you can easily stick in a shipping envelope? That is absolute robbery!!

Went to ebay and fouond the same item for $6.49 and FREE shipping.

Camping World is no longer in my "favorites" and will not renew my Good Sam membership if they are going to constantly fleece customers. There are other options!

So you are against the free enterprise system where every retailer is free to set their prices without government intervention?
The alternative is government controlled pricing.
MAKE YOUR CHOICE.

Boy talk about straw man arguments and overkill...

Nothing in his post is against the free market system...in fact he showed he supported it by going somewhere else. He has a right to be angry...no one like to be taken advantage of and that shipping cost can certainly be justified as price gouging.

The last time we had government controlled pricing it was during the Nixon administration... Remember wage and price controls???

His comment has nothing to do with that or any other government issue.

But in my view he is totally correct in alerting others to this price gouging especially here on this forum. Information is what makes us all better and smarter consumers and ends the practices his post is addressing.