hurricane price gouging (Read 23242 times)

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« Reply #20 on: August 07, 2014, 09:57:28 PM »
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Re: hurricane price gouging
« Reply #21 on: August 07, 2014, 10:06:22 PM »
Post 'em if you got 'em!

First contestant...Whole Foods. Somehow not entirely surprising.

Isn't whole foods ultra liberal tree hugging hippie mart?      :wtf:    The should be distributing this out for free, because we need it and it would be only "fair".....   not going ultra capitalist.. 

Liberal, the definition of hypocrite.

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Re: hurricane price gouging
« Reply #22 on: August 07, 2014, 10:30:39 PM »
These prices are insane.  I have a few "waterbob" water bladders in my disaster kit.  Under $20 from amazon with free shipping, holds 100 gallons, made of thick plastic, includes a pump for easy dispersal.  and on top of that, i have water filters, a stockpile of purification tablets, im not worried. 

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Re: hurricane price gouging
« Reply #23 on: August 08, 2014, 04:17:06 AM »
Isn't whole foods ultra liberal tree hugging hippie mart?      :wtf:    The should be distributing this out for free, because we need it and it would be only "fair".....   not going ultra capitalist.. 

Liberal, the definition of hypocrite.

John Macke is an ultra capitalist, but he wouldn't have done so well if his target demographic was anyone else but wealthy liberals. A high percentage of conservatives actually believe the garbage in their media programming, but liberals don't have such constraints. They just want to feel like they are better than everybody else, but abandon their "high moral ground" ideals whenever it's not convenient.
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Re: hurricane price gouging
« Reply #24 on: August 08, 2014, 07:58:28 AM »
Whole Foods... hippies with money who pro create and fill Punahou

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Re: hurricane price gouging
« Reply #25 on: August 08, 2014, 08:20:36 AM »
Flagged for removal.  Must have made somebody mad!   :rofl:

It was $100 a case of 16 oz water
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Re: hurricane price gouging
« Reply #27 on: August 08, 2014, 12:23:43 PM »
No I did not I had mine on there for $50 and kept getting flagged
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Re: hurricane price gouging
« Reply #28 on: August 08, 2014, 12:23:59 PM »
Maybe it was you?
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Re: hurricane price gouging
« Reply #29 on: August 08, 2014, 12:41:46 PM »
Funny when you think of it. Masses buy water when we are slated to get 6-7 inches of rain. Then the masses buy lots of paper towels and toilet paper...Are they trying to buy dryness? I don't understand.
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Re: hurricane price gouging
« Reply #30 on: August 08, 2014, 03:53:02 PM »
Funny when you think of it. Masses buy water when we are slated to get 6-7 inches of rain. Then the masses buy lots of paper towels and toilet paper...Are they trying to buy dryness? I don't understand.

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Re: hurricane price gouging
« Reply #31 on: August 08, 2014, 04:16:27 PM »
I guess they take it literally when they hear SHTF. 

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Re: hurricane price gouging
« Reply #32 on: August 08, 2014, 05:37:40 PM »
Then the masses buy lots of paper towels and toilet paper...Are they trying to buy dryness?

You would have to ask my wife about the toilet paper, she has that phobia about running out.

 Paper towels are like duct tape around our house, an all purpose tool.

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« Reply #33 on: August 08, 2014, 07:15:41 PM »

I guess they take it literally when they hear SHTF.

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Re: hurricane price gouging
« Reply #34 on: August 11, 2014, 06:45:34 PM »
Well, some of those stores may be legitimately gouging to make a profit.

Some of them though, do not have a "by the case" price in their electronic inventory because they do not typically sell water by the case.  If the bottles are only in the system for individual sale, there would be no way for them to ring up the case. That means a case of 24 bottles that would normally unpacked and sold individually would have to be rung up a $1 x 24 bottles no matter what.

When I worked at Walmart years ago we had this problem.  We would sell certain bottles individually, and when people wanted a case, they had to pay full value for each bottle regardless if it was unpacked or not.

That being said... its a free market.  If people are buying it for that much, what's to stop them.

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Re: hurricane price gouging
« Reply #35 on: August 11, 2014, 06:56:56 PM »
I hope everyone who overpaid saved their receipts and return all of that stuff in the next few days. 

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Re: hurricane price gouging
« Reply #36 on: August 11, 2014, 10:02:58 PM »
Heard people returned lot of water to Costco. At Beretania Foodland; they said nobody had returned any.. and they had strong words for anyone that would. Tend to agree. what a PITA to restock.. like trying to return ice.

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Re: hurricane price gouging
« Reply #37 on: August 12, 2014, 08:50:30 AM »
I hope everyone who overpaid saved their receipts and return all of that stuff in the next few days.

All those people that panic and screw up traffic and hurt everybody else's chance to buy anything by over buying, should not be allowed to return a damn thing.

In my opinion, these panic buyers should be forced to keep whatever they bought.

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Re: hurricane price gouging
« Reply #38 on: August 12, 2014, 09:27:45 AM »
All those people that panic and screw up traffic and hurt everybody else's chance to buy anything by over buying, should not be allowed to return a damn thing.

In my opinion, these panic buyers should be forced to keep whatever they bought.



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Re: hurricane price gouging
« Reply #39 on: August 12, 2014, 09:30:11 AM »
All those people that panic and screw up traffic and hurt everybody else's chance to buy anything by over buying, should not be allowed to return a damn thing.

In my opinion, these panic buyers should be forced to keep whatever they bought.

Maybe a 25% restocking fee? 

That will convince many to keep what they bought.  The rest will take the financial hit instead of forcing the retailer to eat the extra costs for handling and storage.
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