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Originally Posted by kane
Luckily, I have never lived somewhere that deals with this kind of thing on a regular basis so I don't have first hand experience in these kinds of situations. I know that most states have price gouging rules to keep people from flat out ripping off those in need. I don't think Best Buy is price gouging, but I think they are charging the same price for what is, essentially, a different product. One is cold, the other is not. You pay the premium price for the single bottle because it is cold, but here they are charging the cold price for the non-cold water.
I guess in the end, like I said above, it is all semantics and it is still water cold or not. I guess it is all part of what fascinates me about this country. We will go to war and fight to the death to defend each other's rights and freedoms regardless of whether we agree with how we each use them them or not. We will stand united and die for each other to stop someone we see as a threat to our country, but when it comes to money we will take advantage of each other in any way we can and then tell those who we bleed dry that they were dumb for letting us do so.
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The first thing you need to understand is people are buying water and batteries as a precaution in case the storm knocks out their power or contaminates their water supply.
They DON'T need it. They MIGHT need it. Why would any business cut their prices for someone that may or may not actually use the product. This is the particular instance with this Best Buy.
They did not raise their price. You can say you pay extra for the water being cold. I can say the water is priced warm and they put it in the cooler as a free service to their customers. Doesn't matter in this situation. One bottle of water is $2 buy 24 and pay $48.
There is no hurricane threat here in Florida at this time. If I go to my Best Buy tomorrow and ask the manager for 24 bottles of water and he rings me up at the same price they are paying in NJ would you feel differently.
Would you feel better if Best Buy kept all the water in the back so those customers that were looking for a lot of water couldn't find it at all.
Again, this is a different situation than if the Hurricane had already moved through and people were without water and were in need.
What I do agree with is the atrocity of paying $2 for a bottle of water. I'm old enough to remember when you got water for free and you could put air in your tire for free. When those bottles of Perrier Water came out and people were actually paying for it I thought it was the dumbest thing ever. Now look where we are today
