Price is $43.06
Price is $15.75
"Price gouging occurs when a seller increases the prices of goods, services or commodities to a level much higher than is considered reasonable or fair. Usually, this event occurs after a demand or supply shock. Common examples include price increases of basic necessities after hurricanes or other natural disasters. In precise, legal usage, it is the name of a crime that applies in some jurisdictions of the United States during civil emergencies. In less precise usage, it can refer either to prices obtained by practices inconsistent with a competitive free market or to windfall profits. Price gouging may be considered exploitative and unethical.
As a criminal offense, Florida's "state of emergency" law[2] is an example. Price gouging may be charged when a supplier of essential goods or services sharply raises the prices asked in anticipation of or during a civil emergency or when it cancels or dishonors contracts in order to take advantage of an increase in prices related to such an emergency. The model case is a retailer who increases the price of existing stocks of milk and bread when a hurricane is imminent.
United States. In the United States, state laws against price gouging have been held as constitutional at the state level as a valid exercise of the police power to preserve order during an emergency, and may be combined with anti-hoarding measures."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_gouging
So far, to my knowledge, the US Government has not provided an easy way to report price gouging; I know at the local level it is very cumbersome for the ordinary citizen.
Please share your experience under the Comment Section; if sufficient comments are posted, I will forward this post to the office of the President, as I have in the past, on other occasions. They have reacted in the past.
