Varlet is moving to Order Form

I'm surprised at the negative pricing comments in this thread. Couldn't these comments have been sent to Varlet via PM so as to leave his free market commerce uninterrupted?

Freedom to access information and information symmetry are essential prerequisites to a free market; thus this thread is an organic manifestation of a free market.  What you propose would result in the seller having an imbalanced market tilted in his favour based on having access to the conversations of many buyers but leave the buyers individually information impoverished.  We have come to accept in modern Western economies that free markets work best when sellers, particularly larger well financed corporations have a right to a tilted market based on information asymmetries, barriers to entry, legislative protections &c - likely why the proposal was proffered (if off subject).  

However, to the specifics of this thread, none have called for a boycott, none have proposed a fora ban, no brush manufacturers have discussed collusion to align against Varlet: the only call for anti free market activity has come from this post advocating for asymmetrical information flows that would accrue to the manufacturer's benefit to the detriment of the consumers.  Aspersions are not being cast, rather proposing the post insufficiently considered.  

In closing, it was only a matter of time before the market fundamentalists voiced their objections to this discussion: "Fully realize going to be met with pitchforks and torches by the market fundamentalist mob demanding the witch be burned to save the good people from heresy and Supply Side Jesus' wrath but there you have it.".

Well said.

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Freedom to access information and information symmetry are essential prerequisites to a free market

This and the BST banner policy are logically consistent, no doubt...

I own a beehive from the first announced drop. It a nice brush but it isn’t the best brush that I own. Certainly if it was 200 dollars more than the next most expensive brush I have it would not be worth it to me.

I'm surprised at the negative pricing comments in this thread. Couldn't these comments have been sent to Varlet via PM so as to leave his free market commerce uninterrupted?

I get your concern because I'm a free market guy too. He is free to price however he wants and others are free to take it or leave it.  As far as negative comments go though I think this discussion has remained remarkably docile.  I haven't see anyone calling him names.  It is a paradigm shift in brush marketing and this is a forum where folks discuss such things so for me, as long as it doesn't get personal I don't see harm.  He priced his brush at $500 meaning I see no value in his line at that price.  Thus he need not be concerned about my opinion at all because I am not his target market.

But I’m glad that he’s priced them so that people who really want them can get them. I wish him all kinds of success and hope he sells hundreds.

My criticism is as a customer of Aldo’s. I bought two from him and bought 2 from BST. I like the handle designs on Varlet brushes, and I like the hair used. I personally think there is better out there in terms of 2-band hair, but I much prefer his hair over other custom brushmakers. I like the established brands better.

In no way I wish harm to his business, but I will express my disappointment in the price hike, and will say that for the price he has now, I’ll look elsewhere. I imagine he will still manage to do well, and I wish him all the best. If a brush comes up in the future for a price I can accept at the right time, I’ll buy it. In my opinion his old styled Beehive is the best out of all Beehives designed, and that is quite the praise indeed as I love my Rooney brushes.

I'm surprised at the negative pricing comments in this thread. Couldn't these comments have been sent to Varlet via PM so as to leave his free market commerce uninterrupted?

don't troll.

Varlet is not on this forum, to the best of my knowledge..

that aside, we almost never stop people from discussing pricing outside of the bst forum sections.

I'm surprised at the negative pricing comments in this thread. Couldn't these comments have been sent to Varlet via PM so as to leave his free market commerce uninterrupted?

don't troll.

Varlet is not on this forum, to the best of my knowledge..

that aside, we almost never stop people from discussing pricing outside of the bst forum sections.

I don't intend to troll. That is a comment on hypocrisy, but in an (objectively) humourous way. The attempted humour doesn't negate the valid, though possibly contrarian, comment.

I'm surprised at the negative pricing comments in this thread. Couldn't these comments have been sent to Varlet via PM so as to leave his free market commerce uninterrupted?

don't troll.

Varlet is not on this forum, to the best of my knowledge..

that aside, we almost never stop people from discussing pricing outside of the bst forum sections.

I don't intend to troll. That is a comment on hypocrisy, but in an (objectively) humourous way. The attempted humour doesn't negate the valid, though possibly contrarian, comment.

the rules you mention are specific to the bst. this is not the bst....

also to note: private property is the key to a functioning free market. remember that. feel free to start your own forum if you don't like our incredibly minimalist rules.

feel free to start your own forum if you don't like our incredibly minimalist rules.

One cannot (re)examine the rules of the forum?

private property is the key to a functioning free market

This truism is no more insightful than, e.g., the solecisms in your—borrowed, granted—Latin.