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Price gouging - coronavirus

  • 13-03-2020 3:27pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 31,746 ✭✭✭✭


    Are we allowed to post here naming and shaming price gouging in relation to the coronavirus or is it outside of the rules?

    Chemist in town just tried to charge me 28 euro for three plastic travel bottles of 70 percent alcohol...can I name and shame?

    Any other people with more examples?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 973 ✭✭✭grayzer75


    gmisk wrote: »
    Are we allowed to post here naming and shaming price gouging in relation to the coronavirus or is it outside of the rules?

    Chemist in town just tried to charge me 28 euro for three plastic travel bottles of 70 percent alcohol...can I name and shame?

    Any other people with more examples?

    I'd guess its and say its Hickey's?


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,587 ✭✭✭Feisar


    To be fair they may be getting gouged by suppliers.

    First they came for the socialists...



  • Registered Users Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    gmisk wrote: »
    Are we allowed to post here naming and shaming price gouging in relation to the coronavirus or is it outside of the rules?

    Chemist in town just tried to charge me 28 euro for three plastic travel bottles of 70 percent alcohol...can I name and shame?

    Any other people with more examples?

    Wait, did you actually pay them €28?


  • Registered Users Posts: 31,746 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    Wait, did you actually pay them €28?
    No I didn't but couple of people in front of me did and they had sold tonnes...


  • Registered Users Posts: 31,746 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    grayzer75 wrote: »
    I'd guess its and say its Hickey's?
    Nope Clare street medical/prices medical hall on Nassau street....the robbing feckers!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 503 ✭✭✭Rufeo


    I suppose it's supply and demand. Retailers are crafty enough to capitalize on the panic.

    Seriously, just buy some soap. You can always go asian style for washing after going for a number 2. Man, there's absolutely no need for anyone to panic.

    But please name and shame..it will hell ppl avoid such pricing tactics


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,015 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    It's not like hotels upping prices because the Rugby is on it's profiteering on an emergency situation. It's not okay.


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,821 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Rufeo wrote: »
    I suppose it's supply and demand.

    No. It's just cunts.
    Rufeo wrote: »
    Seriously, just buy some soap.

    Bingo. Does the same job. Probably better.


  • Registered Users Posts: 31,746 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Tony EH wrote: »
    No. It's just cunts.



    Bingo. Does the same job. Probably better.
    Yeah soap is perfect but on the go hand sanitizer is so handy...I can't bring sink with me on commute on bus to work


  • Registered Users Posts: 17,837 ✭✭✭✭rob316


    I'm in the industry, manufacturers and wholesalers are gouging. The same product that cost X before this hasn't risen, if anything it should go down due to volume.

    A hygiene wholesaler asked us to bid on a pallet of 1000 x 500ml hand sanitizer bottles on Thursday, we put in a bid per unit that would be about 300% higher than the usual price and we didn't get close to the final price it went for.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Buy a bottle of TCP, a liquid so unfashionable and smelly it's probably more available.


  • Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    anyone profiteering from this crisis should be treated like looters - shot on sight.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,761 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Saw a WhatsApp message last night about supervalu gouging on pasta. .94c/kg pre corona virus to €4.98 / kg when restocked . Same brand. The same feckers telling us there won't be food shortages. But people will be shafted from profiteering.


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,811 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    Pinch Flat wrote: »
    Saw a WhatsApp message last night about supervalu gouging on pasta. .94c/kg pre corona virus to €4.98 / kg when restocked . Same brand. The same feckers telling us there won't be food shortages. But people will be shafted from profiteering.

    The only reason why there's shortages is because of people hoarding. Why are retailers not allowed do what hotels, airlines, Uber have been doing for years?


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,229 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    Pinch Flat wrote: »
    Saw a WhatsApp message last night about supervalu gouging on pasta. .94c/kg pre corona virus to €4.98 / kg when restocked . Same brand. The same feckers telling us there won't be food shortages. But people will be shafted from profiteering.

    are you sure its not just that their organic pasta is the only one left (which is normally that price ? ):rolleyes:


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,429 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Bobby Kerr had another lad from the petrol “lobby” explaining why the pricing is “complicated” and won’t be dropping down with the dip in oil pricing.

    A number of “factors”. Very complicated. Two thirds of the prices goes on tax, you know?

    The tide is turning…



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭utyh2ikcq9z76b


    anyone profiteering from this crisis should be treated like looters - shot on sight.

    We don't treat looters like that


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,391 ✭✭✭micks_address


    Bobby Kerr had another lad from the petrol “lobby” explaining why the pricing is “complicated” and won’t be dropping down with the dip in oil pricing.

    A number of “factors”. Very complicated. Two thirds of the prices goes on tax, you know?

    Ten cents is a pretty good start on petrol. I definitely noticed when filling today. Saved about a fiver on the fill.


  • Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Bobby Kerr had another lad from the petrol “lobby” explaining why the pricing is “complicated” and won’t be dropping down with the dip in oil pricing.

    A number of “factors”. Very complicated. Two thirds of the prices goes on tax, you know?

    I paid €1.33.9 the other day for diesel just passed its now €1.22.9


  • Registered Users Posts: 23,179 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    Del2005 wrote: »
    The only reason why there's shortages is because of people hoarding. Why are retailers not allowed do what hotels, airlines, Uber have been doing for years?

    Supply and demand is fair enough basis for an economy.

    But when there is a national emergency with the country shutting schools, putting together a 3.4 Billion budget together and so on, profiteering an a product such as disinfectant is morally and ethically wrong

    Hotels, restaurants and Uber and luxury indulgence and not critically to life


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  • Registered Users Posts: 10,429 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    I paid €1.33.9 the other day for diesel just passed its now €1.22.9

    The guy on Pat Kenny, the other day, said we wouldn’t be seeing it drop back down to €1.20, even though the price per barrel is where it wasn’t when it was last that low.

    Some people texted in saying their local garage had dropped their price accordingly. I’m guessing some will play ball and others will toe the “party” line.

    The tide is turning…



  • Registered Users Posts: 190 ✭✭defrule


    Is there no watch dog?


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,426 ✭✭✭ressem


    The likes of Unilever are saying that they can't supply any more Isopropyl alcohol, manufacturers across europe with any sort of filling line capability are throwing alcohol, perfume, a thickener (to cause it to gel) and a bottle together.

    Using dishwashing liquid will work, but really should be rinsed off as a second step of the cleaning process. Harsh on the hands but better than nothing.

    When you’re cleaning your hands, Dr Edwards recommends doing it thoroughly – “with any soap or detergent, as long as it’s safe for hands” – to properly remove any bugs or virus. “Soap and detergent are quite good at killing the virus, but it’s mostly about removing the virus from your hands [so rinsing it down the sink], rather than killing it,” he explains.

    Professor Sally Bloomfield, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, also stresses that rinsing the soap off properly is really important as it helps wash away the virus.

    If you don’t have a sink and running clean water, use alcohol hand gel. “This stays on your hands long enough for the high percentage of alcohol to directly kill the virus without washing it away,” he explains. “Alcohol alone can just run away, and it’s harsh on the hands, but gel stays there.”


  • Registered Users Posts: 21,065 ✭✭✭✭Odyssey 2005


    I paid €1.33.9 the other day for diesel just passed its now €1.22.9

    Today


  • Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    are you sure its not just that their organic pasta is the only one left (which is normally that price ? ):rolleyes:

    Of course that is it! Some folk need....


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,505 ✭✭✭✭Xenji


    18.00 Euro for a 500ml bottle of hand sanitizer in Castlebar.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭This is it


    Xenji wrote: »
    18.00 Euro for a 500ml bottle of hand sanitizer in Castlebar.

    Yep. €15.00 for this, not sure how much it'd normally be.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,913 ✭✭✭Danno


    Bobby Kerr had another lad from the petrol “lobby” explaining why the pricing is “complicated” and won’t be dropping down with the dip in oil pricing.

    A number of “factors”. Very complicated. Two thirds of the prices goes on tax, you know?

    Heard that last week on the radio. Amazing how these factors are not in play when prices go up on the world markets. :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,302 ✭✭✭Heebie


    As long as you spell evil c-r-a-f-t-y.
    Price gouging is always evil. Doing it in an emergency like this is truly insidious.

    Japan has just instituted a law where price gouging on medical supplies nets you a ridiculously high fine and prison time. Maybe that's the only way to tackle it.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,913 ✭✭✭Danno


    I paid €1.33.9 the other day for diesel just passed its now €1.22.9

    Diesel is €1,16.9 in Johnstown NW Kilkenny just off the M8


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