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Price gouging

By Crumbalimb

3 years ago


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    #5 3 years ago

    It is impossible to "price gouge" on a luxury item.

    What you are describing is profiteering, a more general term.

    #53 3 years ago
    Quoted from Phat_Jay:

    There ya go
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    Pretty close!

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    #109 3 years ago

    Oh, for heaven's sake.

    Language is all we have. Without it, we'd all still be living in caves and grunting.

    As such, words have meaning, and when those meanings get blurred, it is a loss.

    Thus, I repeat at the risk of getting modded for being a broken record: one cannot "price gouge" on a luxury item. No one was ever forced to overpay on a topper in order to survive.

    And the sad truth is, some people have money to burn, and those who struggle cannot imagine how badly the former NEED that topper.

    It's like all that Supreme crap. Supreme used to mean "the best." Now it just means a fad on white things with a red logo, with artificial scarcity.

    #111 3 years ago

    If this so-called bubble is ever going to pop, the post-Covid return of doing things outside one's place of residence might do it.

    #132 3 years ago

    Enough of one to get price gouged, anyway.

    I'm going to have to drain this thread before I gouge my eyes out!

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