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[–] Badnuggets69 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Sharp rise in demand without time for supply to adjust. What the fuck do you expect? This has to be the work of a leftist.
[–] KosherHiveKicker [S] ago (edited ago)
The U.S. actually has laws specifically making such disaster price gouging on basic necessitates such as food, water, fuel, and etc. illegal.
That is hardly "leftist" of someone to seek to protect disaster victims, from being victimized again by ((( Amazon.com ))) shekel grubbing.
[–] Badnuggets69 ago (edited ago)
I understand the basis for such laws: basically you have a trapped consumer with no options and the gov. wants to protect them. I doubt the spirit of the law was to force companies to take loses or magically change supply-demand curves.
Edit: my point is price gouching is a matter of degree. Standard supply-demand would increase price in such situations, and I doubt you could outlaw that.
[–] 8Ball ago (edited ago)
Leftists are known for their lack of economic literacy. If they had any of it, they wouldn't be leftists in the first place.
[–] Spaceballs-1 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
I hate to deflate the hate balloon but you can't blame amazon for the insane shipping cost and as it's pointed out in the thread, its a third party seller.
It's like blaming the auto trader for selling overpriced shit boxes.
There's lots of reasons to hate amazon, they don't need to be fabricated.
[–] KosherHiveKicker [S] ago
Knowingly facilitating price gouging disaster profiteers for a few shekels is more than enough justification for me.
They could as the very least attempt to police such actions during disaster situations such as this.
[–] Spaceballs-1 ago
The marketplace determines the viability of that kind of behavior. Either amazon or some other jew is going to make money from it.
The best reply is to out the seller as a profiteering piece of shit and flag every single thing that he sells as profiteering.
[–] ForgotMyName ago
There have always been some hilariously overpriced 3rd-party sellers on there. I never understood why or who would end up buying from them, but I guess it works out for those people in these instances.
[–] Fambida 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I find Amazon's explanation perfectly plausible.
[–] KosherHiveKicker [S] 2 points -2 points 0 points (+0|-2) ago (edited ago)
They are still facilitating, and making a profit from the transaction(s). They are complicit.
[–] Fambida 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
http://reason.com/archives/2017/08/30/prices-should-rise-during-crises-like-hu
[–] NiggerBitch69 ago
Stock price is up 1.2% so that's good.
[–] derram ago
https://archive.fo/aSE6F | https://files.catbox.moe/tqyqo8.png :
'Amazon prices do not fluctuate by region or delivery location," an Amazon spokesperson said in an email to Business Insider. '
'"Lower priced offers are quickly selling out, leaving higher priced offers from third party sellers," the spokesperson continued. '
' Best Buy was accused of price gouging in Texas following Hurricane Harvey, though the retailer told Business Insider that reports of stores selling cases of water for $42 were due to a pricing "mistake."Â'
'"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."', "The e-commerce giant isn't the only retailer to come under fire recently for apparently inflating prices in emergency situations."
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