Oh. Bro, you're learning. There are a number of people on this site who are completely hypocritical. But I think you're missing the point. There is a difference between selling a $20 cap for $400 and putting a price on your time as a person.
You can't always make direct correlations between everything.
im more saying according to the site moderators' rules regarding classified and what not, they look down on profiteering or selling to make profit.
So if this is the case, everything should be around cost. Obviously cost of labor is subjective, so we should go with the cost of materials + Minimum wage.
That would be the fairest way don't you think?? =)
Let me just clear up some misconceptions you seem to have regarding the direction forum staff want to see for geekhack.org. First, I am NOT forum staff, so anything I say is my opinion, but I think I have some insight to the collective consciousness of forum staff.
Forum staff want geekhack.org to be community oriented, rather than a market for buying/selling/trading goods, with an emphasis on innovation and creativity. Discussion threads should be biased heavily toward community aspects, rather than commercial pursuits (let's say 80/20, hypothetically).
Forum staff want to discourage blatant profiteering from the resale of goods. That doesn't mean there can be no profit made here. Selling a Clack that was just recently purchased at $30 for $300 is not a reasonable by anyone's standards, and should be considered blatant profiteering. Even still, I doubt the moderators would intercede in this case, as long as the post in the Classifieds followed the forum rules.
Making things to be sold for a reasonable profit is even encouraged. People make cables, keycaps, custom keyboards, and offer their modding or assembly services all the time, while making a reasonable profit. These people are even given a special section of the marketplace subforum to display their wares or services.
The new Classifieds rules have more to do with protecting the buyer, by submitting proof that someone actually possesses the item for sale, than with discouraging profit. Forum staff can still take a hands-off, buyer beware policy, while at the same time at least providing for a minimum of proof from the seller that they aren't willfully trying to deceive potential buyers.
So you see...no conflict.
