I think the question here is ethics vs. morality.
The two are not necessarily the same.
Big business likes to believe it is moral because it has ethics. Often, it is not.
I work for a business that provides services for the banking industry.
I stuck my neck out once and asked why we still did business with a well known large bank that was caught using fraudulent marketing practices not once but twice.
The answer was that it was just one part of this bank that broke the law and....
Here is the what it's really all about...
There was so much money to be made by continuing to do business with this particular bank.
Never mind that thousands of consumers were placed in financial jeopardy.
This may seem far away from the garage sale scenarios.
There are folks that can afford to take a big hit and just want to get rid of something. No problem, then.
But if you suspect the sellers price is the result of ignorance, then is it MORAL to take advantage? They may really need the money from a fair price.
Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.
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