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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (321645)	1/18/2007 7:36:12 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574446

"The sales went up, but its a blip up not a sustained increase." Umm, yeah. Why is this bad? Commodities, by their nature, tend to sell at a predictable rate when averaged out over time. So any increase in sales is an extra bonus. So what if it isn't sustained? "Did it actually cause their overall sales over a long period of time to go up?" Probably. Which is why they have warehouses, to smooth out blips in demand. So the warehouses would be at a lower level until production increases can return them to normal levels. You do know how this works, don't you? "the prices also serve as a signal of what items are needed and how badly their needed." Give me a break. The list of needed items is pretty obvious, it isn't like it is a huge secret. If nothing else, you have the local businesses sending in orders to the regional warehouses. Don't you have any clue how retail businesses operate? "Your reducing the availability of scarce goods, your punishing someone who did nothing wrong, and your imposing a cost on society to impose the punishment." No, they are scum. Anybody who profits off of other people's misery is below contempt. You can use the same argument to favor those in a black market or smugglers.

To: TimF who wrote (321645)	1/18/2007 7:46:09 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574446

re: I didn't say there was no profit. Although there might not be. The sales went up, but its a blip up not a sustained increase. Their post recovery sales in the local area would be lower, and there sales in areas they pull the goods from to move to the disaster area would go down. Did it actually cause their overall sales over a long period of time to go up? Probably not... In the building products industry, after Andrew, the sales in the south Florida region were phenomenal for 3 years. There was a ton of demand and we managed to meet it without raising prices... we didn't charge more and were more than happy to move product to where there was the greatest demand short term, and to make more product to fill the demand over the longer term.