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RE: Jeff Bezos Is Price Gouging Hurricane Victims - 9/6/2017 8:04:26 AM

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That price is NOT for a product sold by Amazon, but some rip-off organization called Prime Central Store, who also sell Perrier for 31.82 for 24 16.9 oz bottles.

Typical Bosco, being an asshole again....

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RE: Jeff Bezos Is Price Gouging Hurricane Victims - 9/6/2017 8:09:49 AM

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Here in the Milwaukee area, $2.50 to $3.00 a case is the normal price pretty much year round.

What a price difference!
Wow! The difference in cost of living in different states.

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RE: Jeff Bezos Is Price Gouging Hurricane Victims - 9/6/2017 8:13:40 AM

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That price is NOT for a product sold by Amazon, but some rip-off organization called Prime Central Store, who also sell Perrier for 31.82 for 24 16.9 oz bottles.

Typical Bosco, being an asshole again....

According to some anonymous moron sock on the Internet

According to CBS News as cited in the OP though, the moron sock is totally lost and confused

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RE: Jeff Bezos Is Price Gouging Hurricane Victims - 9/6/2017 8:22:08 AM

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That price is NOT for a product sold by Amazon, but some rip-off organization called Prime Central Store, who also sell Perrier for 31.82 for 24 16.9 oz bottles.

Typical Bosco, being an asshole again....

According to some anonymous moron sock on the Internet

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RE: Jeff Bezos Is Price Gouging Hurricane Victims - 9/6/2017 8:55:31 AM

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From your OP.
While Amazon doesn't set prices for third-party merchants, consumers may not always realize they aren't buying directly from Amazon and blame the online retailer for higher prices or delivery issues.

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RE: Jeff Bezos Is Price Gouging Hurricane Victims - 9/6/2017 8:59:41 AM

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There are over five hundred complaints of price gouging, why? because its a legal thing
Free market capitalism at its finest.
you only live if you can afford to pay in times of disaster...
how american

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RE: Jeff Bezos Is Price Gouging Hurricane Victims - 9/6/2017 9:12:49 AM

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From the OP: they changed the article since I posted it -

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Last Updated Sep 6, 2017 10:19 AM EDT

Amazon (AMZN) may be in hot water with consumers over the price of water.

Some are reporting sharply higher prices for bottled water on Amazon as Hurricane Irma approaches Florida. Customers there were reporting packages of Nestle water selling for $25 on Amazon, yet prices for those in the Northeast showed a 24-case pack of Nestle water selling for $18.50.

Amazon said it doesn't engage in surge pricing, and denied that bottled water prices have changed recently.

"We do not engage in surge pricing," the spokeswoman said in a statement. "Amazon prices do not fluctuate by region or delivery location. Prices on bottled water from Amazon, and third-party sellers that are doing their own fulfillment to customers, have not widely fluctuated in the last month."

Nevertheless, Amazon uses so-called "dynamic pricing," which is similar to surge pricing. In this model, items that are in demand receive price tweaks, thanks to Amazon's pricing algorithms. As demand spikes, prices go higher.

Still - the bolded and underlined portion is Amazon itself, not a third party. Almost a nice try though, for an idiot howler. (Credit where due and all that)

Related - How Amazon uses "surge pricing," just like Uber

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RE: Jeff Bezos Is Price Gouging Hurricane Victims - 9/6/2017 9:18:27 AM

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As gas went up about .60/gallon this week, I guess all the oil companies are guilty of price gouging too huh?

You are saying that the leftist corporate propaganda master overlord is worse than evil capitalist oil executives such as Darth Cheney then

Got it

A capitalist calling out another capitalist for...being a very typical capitalist. What is this very, very, capitalist world...coming too ?

I laugh at capitalists who try to denigrate other capitalists and for being nothing more...than typical greedy capitalist scum.

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RE: Jeff Bezos Is Price Gouging Hurricane Victims - 9/6/2017 9:28:37 AM

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From the OP: they changed the article since I posted it -

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Last Updated Sep 6, 2017 10:19 AM EDT

Amazon (AMZN) may be in hot water with consumers over the price of water.

Some are reporting sharply higher prices for bottled water on Amazon as Hurricane Irma approaches Florida. Customers there were reporting packages of Nestle water selling for $25 on Amazon, yet prices for those in the Northeast showed a 24-case pack of Nestle water selling for $18.50.

Amazon said it doesn't engage in surge pricing, and denied that bottled water prices have changed recently.

"We do not engage in surge pricing," the spokeswoman said in a statement. "Amazon prices do not fluctuate by region or delivery location. Prices on bottled water from Amazon, and third-party sellers that are doing their own fulfillment to customers, have not widely fluctuated in the last month."

Nevertheless, Amazon uses so-called "dynamic pricing," which is similar to surge pricing. In this model, items that are in demand receive price tweaks, thanks to Amazon's pricing algorithms. As demand spikes, prices go higher.

Still - the bolded and underlined portion is Amazon itself, not a third party. Almost a nice try though, for an idiot howler. (Credit where due and all that)

Related - How Amazon uses "surge pricing," just like Uber

It's called demand pricing and has been going on since before the civil war. Nothing more here than just more of your all too typical partisan tripe. Utilities have that flexibility as a matter of law. So.....?

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RE: Jeff Bezos Is Price Gouging Hurricane Victims - 9/6/2017 9:38:46 AM

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Snorts, but the company selling the gouging prices WAS a third party. And Surge Pricing has been around for a long time, again from your link

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So-called "dynamic pricing" has long bedeviled travelers by jacking up the cost of air fares and hotel rooms, and now it's becoming common among online retailers. That technique, also known as surge pricing, could dramatically drive up the cost of items you want to buy online.

And yes, Amazon is being investigated for deceptive pricing. And so it should.
I have used amazon as a third party vendor, and have done for a few years, not often but Ive done it.
for example...
trying to buy soda stream syrups... retail, they cost between 6-9$ in the store...
Try buying it on amazon in Canada(even tho we have a sodastream head office here in toronto...

Its sold by kitchenomics(third party) and fulfilled by amazon(they have kitchenomics stock and ship it)

But your posits are false..simply because it was a third party seller and all I had to do was read the full articles..., but I guess that is the closest you have ever come to admitting you were "wrong" cmon you can say it.

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RE: Jeff Bezos Is Price Gouging Hurricane Victims - 9/6/2017 9:42:27 AM

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How much is a “I was down there and saw the devastation first hand (did you fuck)” hat then? Or do I need to phone China and ask them and what do you think the mark up is? Does he still have his hat shop, and if so where does all the loot go?

I read he was donating $1,000,000 of his "own" money but they do not accept the Yen & Ruble.

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RE: Jeff Bezos Is Price Gouging Hurricane Victims - 9/6/2017 9:48:33 AM

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More seriously - the nation's biggest refinery in Huston is down, along with countless other refineries and oil rigs and pipelines and transport services.

How many water manufacturing companies are down?

Seems like a big leftist such as Jeff Bezos would be giving his billions away to charity right now, doesn't it? Rather than cashing in on people's suffering?

"Evil oil company" gasoline is FAR cheaper than Jeff Bezos' water is, btw

FAR cheaper

During the oil embargoes of the 70's, the oil companies cut off the gas and for a few months made an extra profit of $100 million/PER DAY !!

During the recent but merely typical capitalist speculative run up in oil prices, (futures) everybody involved made collectively Billion$ in additional profits and all on nothing more than speculation.

Oh but that's ok...especially to the greedy, rent-seeking right. You use this Bezo guy and just merely because of purchase of the Wash., Post, as just more of your consistently ridiculous, hypocritical, partisan bullshit.

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RE: Jeff Bezos Is Price Gouging Hurricane Victims - 9/6/2017 9:52:44 AM

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How much is a “I was down there and saw the devastation first hand (did you fuck)” hat then? Or do I need to phone China and ask them and what do you think the mark up is? Does he still have his hat shop, and if so where does all the loot go?

I read he was donating $1,000,000 of his "own" money but they do not accept the Yen & Ruble.

Don't know just what the Yen (?) which of course they would accept, or the ruble have to do with this but I am sure the loot goes where all capitalist loot goes...into their pockets.

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RE: Jeff Bezos Is Price Gouging Hurricane Victims - 9/6/2017 10:10:11 AM

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I think it had something to do with "price gouging" made in China and Ruskie money laundering.

https://shop.donaldjtrump.com/collections/headwear $25-$40 dollars for a hat! The fucking cheek. I look at him, well as much as you can look at that ugly fuck, and think to myself it is not as if the leader of the free world would stoop too levels hitherto unvisted depravity.

How much is a survive a nuclear blast hat then from his shop: probably made of asbestos or shit.

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RE: Jeff Bezos Is Price Gouging Hurricane Victims - 9/6/2017 10:13:54 AM

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More seriously - the nation's biggest refinery in Huston is down, along with countless other refineries and oil rigs and pipelines and transport services.

How many water manufacturing companies are down?

Seems like a big leftist such as Jeff Bezos would be giving his billions away to charity right now, doesn't it? Rather than cashing in on people's suffering?

"Evil oil company" gasoline is FAR cheaper than Jeff Bezos' water is, btw

FAR cheaper

During the oil embargoes of the 70's, the oil companies cut off the gas and for a few months made an extra profit of $100 million/PER DAY !!

During the recent but merely typical capitalist speculative run up in oil prices, (futures) everybody involved made collectively Billion$ in additional profits and all on nothing more than speculation.

Oh but that's ok...especially to the greedy, rent-seeking right. You use this Bezo guy and just merely because of purchase of the Wash., Post, as just more of your consistently ridiculous, hypocritical, partisan bullshit.

As always, you can never back up your mad howling with credible links (you must be a leftist)

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RE: Jeff Bezos Is Price Gouging Hurricane Victims - 9/6/2017 10:27:11 AM

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More seriously - the nation's biggest refinery in Huston is down, along with countless other refineries and oil rigs and pipelines and transport services.

How many water manufacturing companies are down?

Seems like a big leftist such as Jeff Bezos would be giving his billions away to charity right now, doesn't it? Rather than cashing in on people's suffering?

"Evil oil company" gasoline is FAR cheaper than Jeff Bezos' water is, btw

FAR cheaper

During the oil embargoes of the 70's, the oil companies cut off the gas and for a few months made an extra profit of $100 million/PER DAY !!

During the recent but merely typical capitalist speculative run up in oil prices, (futures) everybody involved made collectively Billion$ in additional profits and all on nothing more than speculation.

Oh but that's ok...especially to the greedy, rent-seeking right. You use this Bezo guy and just merely because of purchase of the Wash., Post, as just more of your consistently ridiculous, hypocritical, partisan bullshit.

As always, you can never back up your mad howling with credible links (you must be a leftist)

You dont read your own sources let alone ones given to you.

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RE: Jeff Bezos Is Price Gouging Hurricane Victims - 9/6/2017 10:34:29 AM

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john stossel recently did a segment on the texas attorney general's response to "gouging" and it was pretty interesting.

he essentially charged the man with not understanding basic economic principles and was pretty much in support of businesses being able to charge what they like, and I think he made a pretty good argument for it.

i'll look around a bit to see if I can find it in writing. or maybe someone else can find a video of it.

I recall reading an article about the same thing. I think they made a good case.

Essentially, without the raise in prices, less people will be willing to bring in needed supplies.

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RE: Jeff Bezos Is Price Gouging Hurricane Victims - 9/6/2017 10:49:01 AM

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(Pharmaceutical companies are the worst).

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RE: Jeff Bezos Is Price Gouging Hurricane Victims - 9/6/2017 1:09:54 PM

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Even 18.50 for 24 bottles of water is super expensive! What size are these bottles? Sheesh!

I pay only 12bux for 24 bottles of water, 1.5L each here.

And it's nestle water, that's cheap stuffs.

It definitely is. I wonder why people would buy water by mail order anyway. Bottled water is one of the biggest ripoffs on the planet but if people want to pay for what is basically free out of their tap, well...................Capitalism.

It depends. Living in the country, as I do now, I buy distilled water (I fill it myself) because the well water isn't pleasant.
Other times, such as contaminated city water made buying bottled water necessary.

Raising prices is one thing. Price gouging another. If I know of a company that does that during a state of emergency, I will refuse to buy products from them. It may be legal (or not, dunno) and it may even be an ethical business choice but that doesn't make it the right thing to do.

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RE: Jeff Bezos Is Price Gouging Hurricane Victims - 9/6/2017 3:01:28 PM

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If I know of a company that does that during a state of emergency, I will refuse to buy products from them. It may be legal (or not, dunno) and it may even be an ethical business choice but that doesn't make it the right thing to do.

that was one of stossel's points---that whoever was selling whatever would have to deal afterwards with the customers. being mindful of that, that helps the businesses set appropriate prices.

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