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.

Gouger definitions

noun

an attacker who gouges out the antagonist's eye

noun

a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud

See also: swindler defrauder chiseller chiseler scammer grifter