Ibanezguy wrote
Exactly right. The world is in this general state because everyone wants to get rich quick. I can tell you from working once for a music retailer, that some mark ups were as high as 300% ? Yep you read that right.
I used to work (very briefly) at Soho Soundhouse in London. As salespeople there, we could bend the prices, so long as the average mark up on all of the products we sold remained above 150%.