[Red in Blue PA]

Sounds like capitalism to me. Whatever the market can bear, that’s what they can charge.

I would bet you anything that if they sold shirts at $34-$40 they would sell far mar than they will at $55.

Think of it like taxes. Liberals always claim high taxes will raise a lot of money, when in fact lower taxes do. Amazing to see Conservatives fall for this.

[Red in Blue PA]

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[OldNewYork]

Maybe you’re right. I won’t be buying any $55 t-shirts. I won’t even be buying any $34-$40 t-shirts, for that matter. Whether they would sell more at the lower price and thus make more money overall is a matter for them. It’s their business.

And for what it’s worth, the original price is in Russian rubles. The American dollar doesn’t have the buying power it once had, and Russia isn’t the economic basket-case it was in the decade after the fall of the Soviet Union. I’m sure this would seem over-priced even to many Russians, but I expect it’s the poor exchange rate that makes it seem even more so to us Americans.

What conservatives are you meaning are ‘falling for this’? We have say, or are supposed to, about what taxes are set by the governments we have. This is a business, and a foreign one. How much money they make is up to them, as is their success or failure.