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Price gouging - coronavirus

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  • #52
    theguzman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭theguzman


    Mitchomagic wrote: »
    you think its bad here !!!!!

    http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/coronavirus/he-has-17700-bottles-of-hand-sanitizer-and-nowhere-to-sell-them/ar-BB11b9OC?ocid=ientp


    Good enough for the lowlife scumbag, I'm delighted ebay and Amazon stopped this nonsense. All the people in those small towns who might have bought those items and he has surely caused the infection of at least one if not multiple people.


  • #53
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users Posts: 11,964 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Pharmacies always gouged for mundane stuff.
    Look at the prices they have on sunscreen, supplements and things compared to Lidl or Aldi.

    That reminds me, I was in Portugal last September and the pharmacies there charged something like €20 for a 250ml bottle of sunscreen. Good ol' Lidl had them for €3 each.


  • #54
    kirving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,059 ✭✭✭kirving


    Del2005 wrote: »
    If businesses don't make a profit 100% of the time they'll soon stop existing. How do they pay staff, rates, insurance, electricity etc when they don't make a profit on what they sell?

    I said "every single product , 100% of the time". Loss leaders are nothing new to the retail world, and they're consistently lobbying against below-cost selling laws, but play the poor mouth and blame distributors when it suits them.

    The company I work for regularly soak up price increases from suppliers on individual components, because our sale prices have been contractually set with our customers in advance, and the assembly as a whole remains profitable.

    I'm just saying that with the good comes the bad, and retailers on the recieving end of negative press should could more upfront with customers.


  • #55
    10000maniacs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,018 ✭✭✭10000maniacs


    ArmaniJeanss wrote: »
    Is this actually a bad price?
    From memory the little 50ml or 60ml bottles they sell in Aldi/Lidl are about €1.29. Your bottle in Castlebar is 8 or 10 times this size. It seems ballpark OK for a pharmacy.

    Yes when you consider it was €6.99 before the pandemic for the large bottle.


  • #56
    iLikeWaffles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,325 ✭✭✭iLikeWaffles


    Why buy robbing alcohol when you can buy rubbing alcohol

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Isopropyl-Rubbing-Alcohol-First-Antiseptic/dp/B08627D899/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=rubbing+alcohol&qid=1586262733&sr=8-1

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rubbing-Alcohol-Ink-Cleaning-Isopropyl/dp/B07D4N472Q/ref=sr_1_fkmr2_2?dchild=1&keywords=benjamins+rubbing+alcohol&qid=1586262555&refresh=1&sr=8-2-fkmr2

    Bought one of these ages ago (2014) for €3.35
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    https://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/product/B007XVCYBC

    If you do end getting a bottle don't mix the 70% IPA with anything. Has to be 99.9% IPA to be able to dilute with moisturisers etc when you mix the 70% it drops the potency off considerable. The 70% on its own is much better at killing pathogens as the 30% purified water bounds to the pathogen and the alcohol kills them. 99.9% on its own can take longer to kill. (Up to 2 hours.)


  • #57
    PhilOssophy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,114 ✭✭✭PhilOssophy


    There must be any amount of businesses that have ripped people off throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.
    Expert hardware is the best I've seen yet. €5 for 100ml of hand sanitiser, €20 for 10 masks, and €12 for 25 pairs of gloves. Robbery all round.


  • #58
    Foweva Awone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭Foweva Awone


    Supply and demand. If you consider it a rip-off, buy elsewhere, or not at all.


  • #59
    Pkiernan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,310 ✭✭✭Pkiernan


    Masks are €4 a piece at my local petrol station.


  • #60
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 77,533 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Threads merged


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