13 example sentences using gouger.
Gouger used in a sentence
Gouger in a sentence as a noun
It's hard to fight an eye-gouger if they aren't blind.
Afterall, he may be a fraudster and a gouger but he's not so bad because he's also a troller!
Without the emergency, there would be no incentive for the gouger to source and acquire the product.
If the gouger actually bought them all then you have a monopoly, which is a different problem.
Grifter, swindler, price-gouger - all taking advantage of others in a bad way.
These will either sit in some gouger's garage waiting for a premium price, or be needlessly used by someone affluent.
Do you believe that, absent price gougers, I would be able to walk into Home Depot, CVS, Walmart, etc. and buy some N95 masks for my personal use?
Show me a price "gouger" and I'll show you someone that is about to make their last few sales and have no inventory for an unknown period of time.
> What the "gouger" is doing is correcting a market inefficiency by performing arbitrage through time.
What the "gouger" is doing is correcting a market inefficiency by performing arbitrage through time.
Why don't you go ask some disaster survivors which is more violent: $100 for water sold privately by a gouger or government provided water?
I'm talking about whether or not a price gouger provides the service of making some product available on the market, albeit at a higher price.
By acquiring the product, the gouger removes the product from the market for those who are following ethical guidelines, so he's not providing a service at all.