But my point wasn't that trading up isn't tricky, but rather price cutting tends to be proportional to price so you want to move up in price when the market is weak.
Still transaction costs are ugly. We often pay far higher real estate commissions (5-6%) + loan fees, title insurance etc such that between buyer and seller as much as 10% extra is spent.
100% agree that step changes are stupid as someone said in this thread.
we don't have that sort of fee in the US in most jurisdictions
Makes sense. After all, was not stamp tax one of those reasons cited for breaking away from Britain in the first place?
Sure, there was some other stuff to.
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
And being ruled by a madman named George was apparently not very popular either.
But you can not have everything, now can you? A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!