[ExI] one good thing

[William Flynn Wallace]

dylan wrote

How are you sure that gas was so readily available within a given area, and
if so, why weren't people heading to the ones who were not being arrested
with lower prices?

OUtside of New Orleans, southern Louisiana is very rural.  I suspect that
the reason they didn't go anywhere else was that 1 - they didn't have the
gas to get there 2 - they suspected that everyone was gouging and so paid
for what was available.   bill w


On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 6:17 PM Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> And? What are your thoughts on Uber peak pricing?  When all train service
> got stopped and I was stuck in Grand Central Terminal, prices immediately
> tripled for a trip home.  I took a pass as I didn't want to pay them.
> Noone had a gun to my head to take an Uber.
>
> When Sandy hit up here, gas cans to carry stuff home for generators were
> hard to come by.  Prices were way above average for any that were left
> (everything was gone at "normal prices").  I needed both a can and a
> generator so I paid up for both, and they came in very handy that week with
> no power where I needed the generator to keep the boiler and refrigerator
> running.   With price controls, there likely would have been none left of
> either when I got there to look for one.
>
> How are you sure that gas was so readily available within a given area,
> and if so, why weren't people heading to the ones who were not being
> arrested with lower prices?
>
> Speculators are always an easy target.
>
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 6:51 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> There was no lack of gasoline during the Katrina hurricane disaster, yet
>> prices went way up.  And the people that did it got arrested.  bill w
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 5:44 PM Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, if you believe in markets it's a terrible thing.  Prices ration
>>> available supply.  Price controls (or this) are never productive in the
>>> long term and increase black market transactions and scarcity in legitimate
>>> ones...
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020, 6:10 PM Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <
>>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> lol
>>>>
>>>> But isn't that a bad thing?
>>>> If I wanted to pay $100 for TP, I never would, but if I did, possibly
>>>> for something I'd really want, I'd be very upset at Amazon for denying me
>>>> that opportunity.
>>>> That's what supply and demand is, right?
>>>> Brent
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 3:40 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
>>>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> > *On Behalf Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
>>>>> *Subject:* [ExI] one good thing
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Amazon has deleted over 500K of products that were gouging consumers
>>>>> on products such as masks.  Some had upped their price over ten times
>>>>> normal.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> bill w
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Muwaaaahahahaaaaaaa…
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I stocked up on TP early, before the panic, so that I could make a
>>>>> buttload reselling at absurd prices on the Dark Web.  I expect the peak to
>>>>> be reached soon, at which time I shift into phase 2 of my nefarious plan,
>>>>> which is providing a use for all their stockpiled twenty-year supply of TP:
>>>>> I sell them (at a scandalous profit) my stockpiled ExLax.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> spike
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