Rapha, nice but a bit pricey?

You keep coming back to this and I really don't know why. Besides I really don't think you have any right to assume what people are earning.

Well, I come back to it because :
a) i know it it annoys you :) ( absolving smiley face), and
b) i suspect it to be true - you do seem to be quite bitter about the amount of profit you assume them to be making, something which you may or may not have the right to do.
I can assume what you earn, if i like - marketing companies do it all the time, after all.

FWIW, My assumption that Rapha inflate their prices artificially has been quashed after a bit of digging around, though they do bask in their exclusivity.

If it's easier for you just to tell me I'm having a whinge then I'll not bother pursuing this.

What do you mean 'inflate their prices artificially' ? How does a commercial company do that anyway? You seem to be under the impression there's some kind of central fixed index of cycle clothing prices that Rapha are bound by. All prices are 'artifically inflated' by the vendor,there are no rules about how much profit you are allowed to make on any given item.

I wasn't saying that Rapha is an unethical company. That's a provocative way of putting it. I was suggesting that they can afford to be greedy because there's no competition, though as I've pointed out there is no evidence to suggest that they are being greedy other than the seemingly excessive RRP of their products.

Well, you were saying that. You said they were profiteering, which is by definition unethical.
What is an 'excessive RRP' ? People in business charge as much as the market will pay. It really is as simple as that. What annoys me, and it's not you personally at all, is the general attitude of some of this forum that companies making cycle related stuff are somehow not bound by the usual rules of capitalism, and should instead be run as some kind of benign collective where 'cool stuff for all' is the only bottom line.