i'm asking you if you think that qualifies as "deceiving someone in order to defraud them"
if i take a can of beans for example
and put a brightly colored label on it and jack up the price
i have added no value to the can of beans
but i am able to extract more money from the purchaser through deception
If you want to sell your tokens for crazy prices, you're defrauding the market?!
it depends on your sales pitch
No it doesn't. And obviously you think that offering your wares at marked up prices, is deceiving and defrauding the people who agree to the offer, so yeah, good luck with your contradictory nonsense logic.
if you are using deception
then it qualifies for YOUR DEFINITION of "scam"
How are you deceiving by asking more than others?
selling the same product with a different label at a higher price is deception
Why? Does the product have any intrinsic high price limit? Does the product have any intrinsic label that it falls under?
the example i started with was a can of beans
a friend of mine once worked in a canning plant
and all of the cans contained the same product
but some of the cans had different labels
and on the store shelf
some of those labels are consistently marked at a higher price
knowing what i know now
i am no longer purchasing items with those labels
specifically because they seem deceptive
How is pricing things as one wishes, deceiving anyone? Caveat emptor.
i'll take that as a "no"
Huh? You're suggesting that theres any way to defraud someone by selling things at marked up prices still?
if you sell something with dishonest marketing techniques in order to price-gouge, doesn't that meet your definition of "defraud" ?
like selling a used car without revealing pertinent information
Now you went from "price gouging" to using deception to price gouge! Define both.
Caveat emptor.
i've been using "deception" as my primary example this whole time
Define both and explain how price gouging is deceptive as opposed to not price gouging, and define "dishonest marketing techniques" and how and why it is deception.
do you have any opinion regarding "anti-trust" laws ?