I recently spent several days vacationing with my family in Orlando Florida. We stayed out our favorite place – the Loews Portifino hotel on the Universal property.
We didn’t do any Disney or Universal stuff… although I think next year both my kids will be old enough to enjoy the parks.
Instead we went around to the various Universal Hotel pools (Hard Rock, Royal Grand Pacific) and even hit up the local water parks. We had a blast.
Once when I ordered room service I noticed there was a 20% room delivery feel and 18% gratuity added on to my already ridiculously overpriced $25 burger and fries. Bringing the total closer to $50.
But at the time I was happy to pay it. I had not prepared for the situation and it was my only (and pretty much cheapest) option.
But I am sure you all are used to situational price gouging… The RETARDED price of gas when you return your rental car, The price of can of a extremely small can of Pringles ($7) on a Delta flight, or the reticules 20% sales tax in the Denver Airport. Yes the Denver airport actually has its own city that has 20% sales tax.
Anyway at first I got pissed. Shit like this should be outlawed! or should it? The more I thought about it the more these items moved away from criminal (in my mind) and more into the column of capitalism.
After all we the consumers decide what is allowed… what we will bare…
In 2006 I started selling data cables on my ringtone website. Back then there was no such thing as getting ringtones sent to your phone and you HAD to buy a data cable. Now you could buy data cables on eBay for .50 cents. But I sold them for $19.95… and I sold a lot of them.
Some could say that was situational price gouging because people were already there but some (mostly me) could argue that it was their way of saying THANK YOU for the killer resource I gave them.
Either way I shipped out on average 50 data cables a day. I never had one complaint.
I guess I never complained to the airline stuartess that the same can of Pringles she sold me for $7 are .99 cents at the grocery store.
I was just happy to have them.
We didn’t do any Disney or Universal stuff… although I think next year both my kids will be old enough to enjoy the parks.
Instead we went around to the various Universal Hotel pools (Hard Rock, Royal Grand Pacific) and even hit up the local water parks. We had a blast.
Once when I ordered room service I noticed there was a 20% room delivery feel and 18% gratuity added on to my already ridiculously overpriced $25 burger and fries. Bringing the total closer to $50.
But at the time I was happy to pay it. I had not prepared for the situation and it was my only (and pretty much cheapest) option.
But I am sure you all are used to situational price gouging… The RETARDED price of gas when you return your rental car, The price of can of a extremely small can of Pringles ($7) on a Delta flight, or the reticules 20% sales tax in the Denver Airport. Yes the Denver airport actually has its own city that has 20% sales tax.
Anyway at first I got pissed. Shit like this should be outlawed! or should it? The more I thought about it the more these items moved away from criminal (in my mind) and more into the column of capitalism.
After all we the consumers decide what is allowed… what we will bare…
In 2006 I started selling data cables on my ringtone website. Back then there was no such thing as getting ringtones sent to your phone and you HAD to buy a data cable. Now you could buy data cables on eBay for .50 cents. But I sold them for $19.95… and I sold a lot of them.
Some could say that was situational price gouging because people were already there but some (mostly me) could argue that it was their way of saying THANK YOU for the killer resource I gave them.
Either way I shipped out on average 50 data cables a day. I never had one complaint.
I guess I never complained to the airline stuartess that the same can of Pringles she sold me for $7 are .99 cents at the grocery store.
I was just happy to have them.
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