Well, I've read a lot of the responses to this thread, and here's the bottom line:
1) A Hot Deal was posted with OBVIOUSLY limited quantities.
2) Some people ordered 10+ mice for whatever reason.
3) I argue that ordering 10+ mice for whatever reason for this particular deal with limited quantities if piss-poor and definitely unethical because it constitues taking more than one's fair share and it screws 9 other people.
4) People who ordered 10+ mice for whatever reason DESERVE to get overcharged, and I hope that all the time/effort expended in getting their money back teaches them a lesson...but I also acknowledge that some ppl on AT aren't that bright and will continue to behave in such a piss-poor fashion. That is certainly your prerogative.
Unfortunately, it seems that most of you don't seem to understand the reductio ad absurdum argument, which is based on the stipulation that at some quantity of mice ordered (e.g. 100, 1000, etc.), the act can then be considered unethical...since the only nonarbitrary acceptable order size is 1, it then follows that ordering more than 1 is unethical. However, whether or not we have a cow about ordering 2 or 3, even though it is unethical, is relative....I personally don't have a problem with ppl ordering a few because I honestly don't blame them (even though I argue that ordering more than 1 is unethical). However, ordering 10, I believe, is absolutely PISS-POOR, and I think many ppl in the HD forum agree -- thus, the act of ordering a quantity of 10 when stock is limited and there is not enough to go around can be considered not only immoral, but REPREHENSIBLE, based on community standards.
However, I do think that all of here DO understand that hot deals are almost always limited by stock and availability. Those of us who have been here a while probably have been jacked at least once (if not numerous times) on hot deals because somebody snatched the last one. Based on the number of ppl here who outright admitted that they hoarded 10+ mice, I would say that many times, hot deals are not available to us because of jerks who take way more than their fair share. I think it violates the good faith of this forum to take more than you entitled to and it is 100% disrespectul to your peers as well as to the original poster of thd deal. I realize that some of you could care less -- and that's fine...after all, it's perfectly okay to behave like a sociopath as long as you don't know you are one.
Valsalva