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Price Gouging

Price gouging is a term for a seller pricing much higher than is considered reasonable or fair. In precise, legal usage, it is the name of a felony that applies in some of the United States only during civil emergencies. In less precise usage, it can refer either to prices obtained by practices inconsistent with a competitive free market, or to windfall profits.

Take a $16 ticket, add $5.90 convenience charge, then add $2.20 for ordering online, and that's a 52% markup for a ticket to buy from ticketmaster.com

FIFTY PERCENT MARKUP, now THAT IS PRICE GOUGING!!!

by ihatescams October 6, 2009

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Price Gouging

The act of raising the prices due to increased demand and/or low inventory of a product, service, etc.

Price gouging-The stores in the CA gold rush would price gouge because they were the only in town and the miners needed the supplies.

by Happy facer boi March 5, 2022