It's just a matter of time where every city's residents get organized in this fashion IMHO. Who knows, maybe someone will create this smartmob.org web site to browse by city to find out what articles other smartmobbers are looking to buy and what is their target buy date.
Retailers won't be able to ignore these customers. Someone mentioned that the retailers will adjust their prices to accommodate the losses. Smartmob will ensure not to shop at those retailers. In fact the Smartmob could start organizing to manufacture and distribute the product desired in question at a better price.
Keep in mind the concept can be applied to the vast panoply of items the consumer gets screwed over on.
I've also heard of bartering clubs as a manner of evading taxes. I don't know much about these but does anyone here have a better understanding where pros and cons of both are and if they should mesh?
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It's just a matter of time where every city's residents get organized in this fashion IMHO. Who knows, maybe someone will create this smartmob.org web site to browse by city to find out what articles other smartmobbers are looking to buy and what is their target buy date.
Retailers won't be able to ignore these customers. Someone mentioned that the retailers will adjust their prices to accommodate the losses. Smartmob will ensure not to shop at those retailers. In fact the Smartmob could start organizing to manufacture and distribute the product desired in question at a better price.
Keep in mind the concept can be applied to the vast panoply of items the consumer gets screwed over on.
I've also heard of bartering clubs as a manner of evading taxes. I don't know much about these but does anyone here have a better understanding where pros and cons of both are and if they should mesh?