Digital BW, The Print

Lets see what was that analysis I saw some time back. If you bought all 
the parts to make a Ford that cost 20 K from the Ford dealer, it would 
cost you 250 K.  Common practice - and very legal.

Truman

Doug I. wrote:

> And using this model, every photographer who offers a low-cost portrait
> session, then charges $25 for a 50-cent print should be summarily 
> executed.
> Especially if they did not personally manufacture their own paper  and
> chemicals and hand-grind the lens on their homemade enlarger. ;-)
>
> All I can say is welcome to the big, bad world of free enterprise. Pricing
> low to get them in the proverbial door is hardly dishonest, or even
> particularly original. No one is hiding the cost of replacement ink 
> and then
> saying "surprise, sucker!" And I find it very hard to feel sympathy for
> those who demand the car with the biggest engine, then complain about the
> cost of gas.
>
> Caveat emptor,
> Doug
>
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