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[–] 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.

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[–] 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.

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[–] KosherHiveKicker [S] ago 

$80.00 for a 24-pack of 16oz. bottles of tap water seems like "Standard supply-demand"?