Posted on 09/03/2005 2:53:10 AM PDT by CRIMINAL PRICER
What am I hearing? I never get on these forums so I have no Idea what proper ettiquette is, or who this comment is dirrected to. (Cant tell who was talking and who was responding.) But, by the name I chose to use Im sure my stand is obvious. I probably wont respond to any responses since I stumbled on this while doing a search to get information to prepare to send a couple crews west to AL,and MS, to what?? Make me a ton of money roofing!! Price Gouging? Have you ever went to a "going out of Bizz Sale? What? You took advantage of someones misfortune to aquire merchandice at "scumbag" prices, not giving any thought to there misfortune? Will someone please alert the F.B.I., C.I.A., Homeland Sequrity,yada yada that there is a "merchandice gouger" (If merchandice=money, and money=merchandice, therfore let merchandice gouger read and/or = price gouger) among us?!?! Estate sale from a death? Wait till intrest rates sink through the floor and refinance locking your mortage company into a stupidly low rate for the next 20 years knowing that intrest rates will go up and they're going to have to borrow at a higher rate againts the money they lent you? Or heres the best one....lets say you live in Detroit and you want to have your roof done, know what you do if it aint leakin and you can wait? You wait till the middle of January when there's no DEMAND for roofing, but plenty of SUPPLY (read "all construction tradesman with nothin to do and desperate for money)then you call and get bids from a bunch of us companies, and we're already doing jobs AT COST just to give our employees some work so they dont ever figure out that mayby roofing wasnt the best field if yer in the north. Then, you tell me you got a bid from my competitor a lil lower, and GOUGE ME MORE SCUMBAG! But thats all right, I live with it. Supply and demand! Sooooo I see hurricanes whippin thru, get down here the day before Ivan hits in a Budget truck with 23 generators (sorry I missed ya on Andrew)and make a killing! I get my occupational bizz licences for the 2 counties I'm in, even my city licences all for retail sales of generators. And guess what, I have a copy of the Florida price gouging law. It states...."unconsiabl price increases referred to as "price-gouging" on nessity items or goods....." Notice the key word? NECCESITY (wich I cant spell, stupid roofers). Three basic needs: food, water, shelter, and I'll be fair and include medicine (wich if it really were why wouldnt our country have free health care like our frindly Canooks to the north?) Electricity? A neccesity?? Ice??? Gas??? I watch Little House on the Prarie and Survivor! That stuff is not a nessecity! So yer sittin there thinking " gas is a neccesity if you need to evacuate" maybe so but if you cant afford the gas to evacuate walk in there and offer the Gas Man yer weeding ring, or shotgun, or go down the street to the pawn shop, git money for it fill yer tank, and git the hell outta town! And Pawn shops, ever go in there in a pinch in the winter with some jewelery to git a lil cash to float you a week? Talk about price gougin...Mister I payed $800 for that bracelet and you wanna give me $35??? Guess what.... Supply and Demand. Why do you think Home Depot and Lowes ships all there plywood to Florida Right before a hurricane hits?? Help out the community??? Nooo...helping would be givin it away to ederly and less fortunate people...its the DEMAND! They can sell a semi load in 1 hour! Wish I had a lumber yard....HMMMMMM. I ended up buying a house here In Florida in Gulf Breeze outside of Pensacola and Most of my employees moved here permanent too..and if you watch the weather channel, you see ive been thru a couple storms here as a Resident/Consumer; stayed for all of em... Got awsome vidio of Hurricane Dennis as the eye passed over us and we were out in the yard for 5 minutes in dead calm and sunshine, stayed for Arlene on Pensacola Beach and got drunk and blown over. Cindy was weak here. But Katrina's surge made it to my back yard but not in the house, mostly justy light wind damage. Dennis was worse, got flooding in my house, shed with about $3000 tools flooded and ripped apart, fences all gone, and 6 huge 40 foot and taller trees down. There still out there down in the yard, know why??? Cuz SCUMBAG tree cutters are knockin on my door offer to relieve me of triple the amount of cash it should be to remove em! Shocking! But I'm smart...soon thell be out of work...they'll be hurtin for jobs and considering changing proffesions, and i'm gonna gouge them and get the work done for next to nothin!!! I LOVE SUPPLY AND DEMAND!! But in the meantime Im glad for them that there makin a killin off these people who are so impatient and want it done NOW. I just happen to be enough ghetto-redneck that I don't care if I live in one of the better neighborhoods here, I'm waitin till the DEMAND goes down, so to any of my neighbors reading this...deal with, itll git done when it gits done. BUT, know what i did take a beatin on?? Stockin up on 40 gallons of gas for my generator before Katrina. Neccesity? Heck no! I take my family camping sometimes where the whole sopposed idea of fun is being in a tent WITHOUT generators and such!But I got 40 gallons of gas last week cuz I wanted lights, video games, and COLD BEER and cold pops for my kids without haveing to pay those SCUMBAGS GOUGERS for bags of ice....oh wait...i paid the scumbag QuickieGasMart guy for the gas.....damn. Im a victim. And I'v been a victim for the last 9 years in Detroit and dont know why the Governer didn't declare a state of emergency every winter for roofing companys and tell you the CONSUMER it was Illegal to PRICE GOUGE me and that you had to pay the same going rate per square that it was 3 months before! And Im reporting my local plumber who charges me triple when I call him at 7 pm cuz i got a backed up sewer and hes profiting of my disaster and needing it NOW. And the locksmith for the times I was an idiot and locked my keys in the car and payed out the butt for 2 minutes of his time! And DHL Delivery Service when they charged me $380.00 to have a document delivered 250 miles away in 3 hours, heck, when they put it in the sack on the plane with the other stuff they probably paid $200.00 for the whole package and my envelope was 1 out of 50 therefor costing them $4.00. And im turning myself in for taking advantage of the airlines and booking my flights on off peak days when theres not as much DEMAND and gittin my tickit for half price, and booking hotels in the off season when theres a big SUPPLY of available rooms and not enough DEMAND. So, when I sold my generators for $1,400.00, as said, no one had a gun to there head, and many people who had the money decided not to buy one from this here SCUMBAG, but, there were 23 people in Florida after Ivan who were very happy for the next 3 weeks when they were sittin pretty while there neighbors were without, and who think it was money well spent. In fact, when I came back down several weeks later with my crews, we did a few of there s roofs, and remain real close friends with a couple of them and our kids play together. And by the way, if I wouldn't of had one after Dennis, I would have paid double what I had charged rather than my family go without our creature comforts. Well, I know I ramble alot, and I probably will check back to see whats said over this criminal pricing...He He. Later
life get one
PING the kitties!
he could have been more original on the name
IBZ!
after reading this i realize that you smoke a particularly strong brand of crack
I think people should look beyond the typos and lack of formatting and see the kernel of truth here. This is actually some good stream-of-consciousness stuff.
Did you take two tabs of acid this time?
Laissez faire bump!
I agree that price is the great allocator and that the market should set the price, but this is a stupid rant.
I like your tagline... I have become more fond of my guns lately too! :)
The free market is wonderful, I agree. But so are paragraphs.
I like it. It's about time someone stood up for capitalism.
Ever hear of paragraphs?
wasn't that a 50's trio
lol! yeah, formatting is a good thing.
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