I know how tough it is to stand up to powerful forces that prey on consumers.
The American people fear there is some gouging going on.
Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.
Where there's a lack of competition - as we saw with Mylan Pharmaceutical's virtual monopoly on EpiPen - price increases often follow.
There is a yawning discrepancy of what Americans expect and for what they are willing to pay.
We cannot have a system that everything can be passed on to the final consumer in the garb of cost being recovered without being sensitive to their own problems and affordability.
There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest.
The only airline I avoid like the plague is Ryanair. I don't like that, when you book, there are then all of these little extras to pay for, and you end up paying more than just flying with British Airways.
I just hate that Lucas... and it is not just Lucas, because everybody does it, where, boom, they get it out, and then there's a special edition for a movie that doesn't deserve a special edition.
The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
Unfortunately, the weaker people are, the more they pay, and the stronger they are, the less they pay - when it comes to banking, commission and management fees, and in every area of our lives.
So, I'm getting less chips, paying the same amount of money. Is that legal for them to do this?
I don't like it when I see my books sold cheaply.
What is price gouging and what is capitalism can sometimes be a fine line.
Employers who violate rules of fairness are punished by reduced productivity, and merchants who follow unfair pricing policies can expect to lose sales.
It's clear price gouging... The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.
Room service is a hard thing to pay for. That's, like, oatmeal for $12? That makes me mad.
In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.
Markets work when people can evaluate the prices and risks of different products, then pick the ones that work best for them. But when the terms of the deal are hidden, competition doesn't work. And customers aren't the only ones who are hurt.
I don't think that just because people will pay a certain amount for a ticket that it's all right to charge it.
There is no reason that a cell phone should cost double in Israel what it does abroad.
People have been upset in the past about pay-per-view fights because they got sold a lie or an illusion that was not real.
Cost-plus is an inefficient way to do things.
Hey, if we didn't overcharge for our product - guess what - people wouldn't have to buy used games.
With various people complaining about "price gouging?... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused of either "greed" or "gouging" ? not even when they bulldoze people's homes in order to turn.
