Jeff, you are wrong. Sorry.

I guess that is how you see it. I would disagree. I see your point and I respect and understand it, but I think that Best Buy is taking advantage of a bad situation to put a little money in their pocket and it all seems a little shady to me.

Luckily, I have never lived somewhere that deals with this kind of thing on a regular basis so I don't have first hand experience in these kinds of situations. I know that most states have price gouging rules to keep people from flat out ripping off those in need. I don't think Best Buy is price gouging, but I think they are charging the same price for what is, essentially, a different product. One is cold, the other is not. You pay the premium price for the single bottle because it is cold, but here they are charging the cold price for the non-cold water.

I guess in the end, like I said above, it is all semantics and it is still water cold or not. I guess it is all part of what fascinates me about this country. We will go to war and fight to the death to defend each other's rights and freedoms regardless of whether we agree with how we each use them them or not. We will stand united and die for each other to stop someone we see as a threat to our country, but when it comes to money we will take advantage of each other in any way we can and then tell those who we bleed dry that they were dumb for letting us do so.

I think they should have just refused to sell cases.

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I should have thought of that one in my op. :Oh crap

I bet Best Buy is going to go from the red to the black this quarter because of this move.

Those capitalist bastards.

/sarcasm

See, this is the problem with America today. It's the entitlement mentality. Broke ass bitches crying because they can't afford a Bentley. I just bought 3 cases of $40 water!

The first thing you need to understand is people are buying water and batteries as a precaution in case the storm knocks out their power or contaminates their water supply.
They DON'T need it. They MIGHT need it. Why would any business cut their prices for someone that may or may not actually use the product. This is the particular instance with this Best Buy.

They did not raise their price. You can say you pay extra for the water being cold. I can say the water is priced warm and they put it in the cooler as a free service to their customers. Doesn't matter in this situation. One bottle of water is $2 buy 24 and pay $48.
There is no hurricane threat here in Florida at this time. If I go to my Best Buy tomorrow and ask the manager for 24 bottles of water and he rings me up at the same price they are paying in NJ would you feel differently.

Would you feel better if Best Buy kept all the water in the back so those customers that were looking for a lot of water couldn't find it at all.

Again, this is a different situation than if the Hurricane had already moved through and people were without water and were in need.

What I do agree with is the atrocity of paying $2 for a bottle of water. I'm old enough to remember when you got water for free and you could put air in your tire for free. When those bottles of Perrier Water came out and people were actually paying for it I thought it was the dumbest thing ever. Now look where we are today :upsidedow

I thought you were just setting us up for the


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I like Kane, but I think the hippy in him is coming out. Oregon will do that to a guy. ;)

Only thechive.com is running that story. A chive is an onion. Has nobody heard of theonion.com ?

Good for Best Buy. Fuck the idiots.

Sorry, you always need to be stocked up on water. That's just common sense. Enough water and food to live at least 72 hours.

I live through the San Fran earthquake in 1889 and went three days without power. No power means no food. Everything in your fridge spoils, and no power means you can't run out to get fast food or go shopping. This past week my entire home town was evacuated because a train carrying propane caught fire and even though I was just outside of the evacuation zone, I learned a few lessons - such as we need to keep bags full of clothes and a other items so we can leave the house quickly.

I was just reading the news and there was an article about a bunch of people stuck at the Port Authority in NYC hoping to catch a bus to Boston. Seems it never occurred to them that buses, subways, trans, and planes would be shut down during a fucking hurricane.

No shit? Are you a vampire?

And people thought I was old.

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Damn, in before my baddog joke.

You're killing in this thread.

peddling $10 cases of water at 300% markup is for amateurs...

http://newyork.craigslist.org/search...k=1500&maxAsk=

real businessmen peddle $300 generators for $1500+ :thumbsup :1orglaugh

I have my moments.

Just saw an update on The Chive site. They say : The manager of the Best Buy has responded and said, “… Sunday August 28th 2011, we will (be) price matching any local supermarket’s price for cases of water if they are needed for one day only as a gesture of good will.”

I guess it wasn't fake after all and that is a cool gesture by the store.

LOL. Well Played. :)