but it is...the transaction takes place when the worth of the product as seen by the buyer meets the price point asked by the seller...every buyer will always want it for cheaper and every seller will want it more expensive......but you make the transaction at the point stated....Omni-Slash
No, it isn't. A "perfect" price implies something a bit less roving that simply that the price was within your constraints. I've bought items for higher prices than I would have preferred to pay for them. Those prices were within my constraints, but they clearly were not the "perfect" price when I would have happily made a better deal if I could. The only thing that is implied by my purchase at a given price was that this was the going market rate for this particular transaction -- i.e. that it was within my own constraints as well as within the constraints of the buyer. What it does not imply is that the seller would not have taken a bit more for it if he could have, or that I would not have paid a bit less if I could have. Within my constraints, I would always prefer to pay the lower end of those contraints. That would be "perfect" for me.
Basically, these types of discussions almost always try to tie into emotions about what is "fair", as if "fair" can be objectively determined universally for all buyers and sellers in every working marketplace. To me, using the term "perfect" to describe a transaction like that has just as much emotional baggage as using the term "fair". It only makes sense to use those terms when referring to the individuals involved. A transaction like this one that is made without coersion (and by coersion, I mean literally the absence of force and fraud on the part of the buyer and seller, not situations that are outside of their control or based on the "need" of either one), then the transaction was fair for those two people, even if someone somewhere else would never have paid that much for the item, or conversely accepted a price as low as that one to part with the same item. "Perfect" goes a bit farther than that though, because it implies that the transaction was optimal for both parties, and that isn't a conclusion we can default to.
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