Just this morning I was looking for some camera add-ons on one of the online giants. I found what I wanted, and to make sure I was ordering exactly what I needed, I contacted the seller.
After confirming the info I asked about, I put the two items in my cart. They were fairly low cost, so you an imagine my surprise when both increased from online ad price to cart price by about 50%.
One went from about $8 to $12; the other from $9 to $13.
A browser add-on, PriceBlink, found both for the originally advertised price at a another giant marketplace, and I saved about $9. Not a lot, but $9 is $9. And I get to keep it.
Was the online vendor trying to get more money? or was this just a quirk? I wouldn't blame him for the former; but a jump of 50% from one minute to the next is not good business for me.
I have had that happen on Amazon a couple of times and did what you did, went to another site,
Where are the Charmin gougers?
Seems like the price of everything but gas is all jacked up. Of course gas demand is way down, nowhere to go!
And Only Govt is NOT Prosecuted for never letting a Crisis go to waste.
Warehouses are shutting down. I went to Kroger to get cheap avocados and asparagus and they only had the avocados.
Note: If you are sheltering at home, avocados are a God-send.
I'll save you even more money. Common bar soap and hot water will clean your hands just as efficiently......
Hand sanitizers used at home along with bottled water that is just as clean as tap water are the two biggest scams ever sold to the general public...........
Go ahead, buy them if you wish...........LOL!
If people were allowed to price gouge, it would solve the supply issue. When price gouging in prohibited, people buy more than they need, and you have shortage of supply. People wouln’t hoard toilet paper as much if the price was allowed to ride with demand, and that price rise would be incentive for enterprising people to get products to where there was the greatest need.
I would rather pay $10 for a roll of toilet paper, than have no toilet paper.
how much of the in demand items are going to waste sitting in couponer’s stock rooms because they could buy them so cheap?
Had a coworker of mine try to tell me how price gauging was the best example of free market capitalism. Also, how it was morally better as well.
I was simply floored. He spent the next 2 hours trying to convince me of these points.
I finally got fed up and told him there was no way to convince me. It is immoral, corrupt, evil, and the worst of humanity, by trying to profit from people’s misery.
There is no such thing as price gouging.
There is only economic retardation.
Everclear 190 proof ftw.
no thanks
No problem for government employees, “we’re all in this together”
Like rental owners in the Hamptons who usually rent their homes for $5000 a week no asking $30000.
We live in a small town of about 3500, and we have 1 grocery store and a couple of dollar stores. The grocery store, which has bought out the other grocery stores in the next largest town of about 40,000, (except for Aldi) is engaging in price gouging. And, like most of the area grocers, is not running any specials “because covid-19”. Their prices are high anyway, but now that they’re price gouging, they’re ridiculous. In a day or 2, I’m going over there and document some of the prices, then report them to the State AG price gouging department. Then I’ll either shop at Aldi, or drive 30 miles to a town they have no stores in. I’ll only shop at their evil little store if it’s an emergency. To take advantage of this virus situation is criminal.
Look what they’ve done to bleach
Smaller sizes and higher prices
Regular chlorox is up almost 100% from a month ago in same size
We have a partial bottle of hand sanitizer and only use it to fill the small bottles we keep in our cars for convenience....soap and water is not only cheaper but more effective when at home - where many of us are spending so much time these days.
https://www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S0195-6701(20)30046-3/fulltext