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Thank you: I went back and read that thread, but it is primarily a discussion of the technical issues of a Repeater Owner vs. User, such has who has the obligation to ID. @BoxCarmakes the substantive statement: That is a rather dramatic statement, if it is true, and I am curious to discover its citation so that we can see if the statement is correct or just a hope.

In my humble neophyte opinion there's no reason to install / run a repeater unless; (a) It is self serving or (b) You are generous benevolent soul that want's to see others enjoy the medium at your expense

Sage advice for someone who is debating FCC regulations on the internet (or in the woods ?). But in the real world, what if someone, who is basically judgment proof (that is owns little or no assets) starts defaming your wife on the 725 Repeater. Does the repeater owner have civil liability so that you can threaten to bring a private defamation against against the repeater owner, or as @BoxCarrepresents, does the "repeater owner ha[ve] no responsibility for traffic across the repeater unless they specifically generate the input traffic" and then you are SOOL! Inquiring minds want to know! Hence I would like to see a citation to @BoxCar's claim.

If a tree falls in the woods, does it make a sound? If the FCC writes a regulation that it never enforces, does it even matter? If someone wins an argument on the internet, does anyone care?

Price is a signal to the marketplace which indicates opportunity for those who are best able to meet the demand. If you're a consumer, you always have the choice to walk away from an over-priced product. If you claim that you "NEED" this product - then why did you not purchase more of it while the supply was available at a price that you could afford? After all, that's what the Warehouse did - and that's why they actually have a supply. If you wish to punish those with foresight to purchase products in advance of need - then you deserve to end up in a country full of empty shelves. If you don't like the price, don't buy it. That's what sensible people do. People in a panic will always pay $50 for a snow shovel that they could have bought for $10 the week before the storm hit. Then they'll try to blame someone else for their lack of planning.

Over pricing is a politically correct way of stating price gouging. While demand and supply are factors in setting prices for merchandise inflating the selling price on items in stock by significant amounts due to availability fits into the realm of price gouging better than over pricing such as adding a premium to the established purchase prices.

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