Harris County receives nearly 200 price gouging complaints after Hurricane Beryl disaster

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  • Опубліковано 24 сер 2024
  • Nearly 200 gouging complaints have been made in Harris County after Hurricane Beryl. Here's what to do if you spot businesses charging too much.
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  • @M4RI4TIGER
    @M4RI4TIGER Місяць тому +54

    Hotels are definitely price gouging. Aside from not being able to book a hotel due to unavailability, the prices were 2-3X more than what is “normal”.

    • @JL-fx2cd
      @JL-fx2cd Місяць тому

      @@M4RI4TIGER ... come on... it all part of the plan... free market... at the end of the day, we're all ADAPTIMG to climate change... price gouging in texas is part of the adaptation... right? Freedum...

    • @pearlsswine
      @pearlsswine Місяць тому +1

      Lol "muh price gowgyng". Sweetheart, that's literally how hotels work. The Bellagio is not a human right, no matter how much TikTok told you it is.

    • @M4RI4TIGER
      @M4RI4TIGER Місяць тому +2

      @@pearlsswine I don’t have a TikTok and I wasn’t aware of that.

  • @I.Odnamra
    @I.Odnamra Місяць тому +18

    Inflation is price gouging the more I think about it

    • @bobbygetsbanned6049
      @bobbygetsbanned6049 Місяць тому

      But all of Houston gonna vote for Biden's inflation again.

  • @7ch1no38
    @7ch1no38 Місяць тому +29

    Gas station on 610 homestead price gouging gas

  • @Sandy-dd5jz
    @Sandy-dd5jz Місяць тому +26

    Everyone taking advantage of everyone ..
    How sad humanity can be😊

  • @cupcakegirl1064
    @cupcakegirl1064 Місяць тому +37

    Before hurricane
    small bag of ice -$.89
    After hurricane
    small bag of ice-$3.79

    • @Freespiritblair
      @Freespiritblair Місяць тому +3

      7 pound bag of ice is 3.69 now in Fort Worth, Texas and has been all summer. Where could you ever get an .89 cent bag of ice?

    • @bobbygetsbanned6049
      @bobbygetsbanned6049 Місяць тому

      @@Freespiritblair They probably haven't bought ice since 2006.

    • @philoctetes_wordsworth
      @philoctetes_wordsworth Місяць тому +1

      Where? I have no functioning air, and have been buying ice by the 60#+ for a few years. I have NEVER seen ice that cheap. Nope. I found a Windmill water place that also has an ice maker. I pay $2.50/20#.

    • @SOLDOZER
      @SOLDOZER Місяць тому

      Where are you getting ice for .89 cents?

    • @cupcakegirl1064
      @cupcakegirl1064 Місяць тому

      @@SOLDOZER The Pit Stop

  • @Snicesqwork
    @Snicesqwork Місяць тому +19

    Gas station on Ella tried to come with $4.60 it wasn’t on the screen

  • @marmars1081
    @marmars1081 Місяць тому +7

    A local gas station that has had the price of gas at 3.09 for months suddenly charged 3.29 when I paid in cash.

  • @SOLDOZER
    @SOLDOZER Місяць тому +5

    I left Monday and headed out twords San Antonio. On Monday hotels were $135. By Thursday they were $250.

  • @eliasarechiga1927
    @eliasarechiga1927 Місяць тому +10

    Everything’s high

  • @saltysal110
    @saltysal110 Місяць тому +20

    Gov. Abbott is a clueless joke all he does is pass the blame. Abbott and his minions need to put their Big Boy pants on and do their job! Enough with the excuses.

  • @juniorlopez8206
    @juniorlopez8206 Місяць тому +14

    Gas stations chips drinks

  • @thomascrum185
    @thomascrum185 Місяць тому +4

    Ya the fines are only like 10% of the profit they made from price gouging. They will pay the fine and continue to do it as long as they can!

  • @gbpatriot9794
    @gbpatriot9794 Місяць тому +6

    Primary stockholder of centerpointless??? Who's on the board???

    • @JuniperJupiter23
      @JuniperJupiter23 Місяць тому

      You mean principal stockholder, and there isn't _one_ for Centerpoint. There's many, and the largest are mega corporations. CenterPoint's CEO, Jason P. Wells, made $7,000,000 just in 2023.
      CenterPoint Energy, Inc. (US:CNP) has *1336* institutional owners and shareholders. Largest shareholders include Capital International Investors, Vanguard Group Inc, BlackRock Inc., T. Rowe Price Investment Management, Inc., AMRMX - AMERICAN MUTUAL FUND Class A, State Street Corp, ABALX - AMERICAN BALANCED FUND Class A, PRWCX - T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation Fund, VTSMX - Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund Investor Shares, and Boston Partners.

  • @bellagab3
    @bellagab3 Місяць тому +3

    Hotel without power allowed me to book online. Drove all the way there to find out they didn't have power and now they want to charge $175 cancelation fee, literally more than the price per night

  • @LostHisSoninIraq
    @LostHisSoninIraq Місяць тому +2

    It’s a nice diverse city !!! Full of loving caring nice people. They never have road rage, no shooting ever, lots of clean well dressed people, nice cars, competent workers, great scenery, and Ofocurse beautiful weather! No way they price gouge. Rumors!!!

  • @keg10609
    @keg10609 Місяць тому +1

    We just paid 3.49 for gas when down the street it was 2.99…. Man if I would’ve known

  • @purearea5142
    @purearea5142 Місяць тому +1

    The whole USA has been price gouging for about 1 yr now. What’s the diff?

  • @dons3073
    @dons3073 Місяць тому +3

    What about rent gouging no I didn’t think so

  • @tracydowney1901
    @tracydowney1901 Місяць тому +1

    Read my article last week in the Huntsville item- re: Harris county residents coming to Walker County for gas. Prices too high was the complaint-
    “By 50 cents”
    Yeah check the hotel fees too.

  • @trinaisspeakin4539
    @trinaisspeakin4539 Місяць тому +2

    Fat Teddy, GoGo Greg, Dead Eye Paxton and Dufus Dan won’t do a thing about it. They’re focusing on Centerpoint because all it requires is lip service…. Everything else is irrelevant.

    • @mike_w-tw6jd
      @mike_w-tw6jd Місяць тому

      will voters believe them this time?

  • @juanzuniga7616
    @juanzuniga7616 27 днів тому

    Can you make a complaint on houses being price gouged, how about taxes😂

  • @gottagift
    @gottagift Місяць тому

    Polk county Sheriff Grady Judd also encourages folks to report any information on drug dealers who may be price gouging at this time.

  • @intergalacticchicano
    @intergalacticchicano Місяць тому

    Some gas stations some the 146 and 225 were gauging prices

  • @oscar708
    @oscar708 Місяць тому

    The hotels downtown and all over the city

  • @user-ic2bk1pi3b
    @user-ic2bk1pi3b Місяць тому

    It’s normal for stores like Costco, HEB and Krogers to increase prices. They always do that even without an hurricane.

  • @SuspiciousGanymede
    @SuspiciousGanymede Місяць тому +1

    Supply and demand, no power means cold things and electricity is at a premium.

  • @user-jk2hb5qq8r
    @user-jk2hb5qq8r Місяць тому

    Whats new?? That has hsppened every time theres a disaster!! Someone always thonks they have tp overcharge people!! So sad!!! Hotels over charging???? They beeb doing that since covid!! Jacked up thrir prices to make up for being closed and have NEVER LOWERED them!!!!

  • @GraveRot
    @GraveRot Місяць тому

    Thats why we have all these out of town houstonians shopping in lufkin a hour away

  • @Maritza3
    @Maritza3 Місяць тому

    It’s also sad but true !!! I live here is so disappointing 🤦🏻‍♀️

  • @gccheryl4038
    @gccheryl4038 Місяць тому +8

    Some people are just off the rails right now, good grief, complain about everything. We should be counting our blessings and walk on if we don't like the prices.

    • @7ch1no38
      @7ch1no38 Місяць тому +1

      @@gccheryl4038 yea but there's no need to take advantage of folks either tho..there already doubling there money..why kick someone while there dwn

    • @7ch1no38
      @7ch1no38 Місяць тому +12

      @@gccheryl4038 it's like saying stop complaining to center point because you have no power.count your blessings that your alive and walk on

    • @catmejia6109
      @catmejia6109 Місяць тому +10

      Girl hush…..so,e people haven’t been able to work, access their banks and more so yes money matters….there should be no price gouging when the whole damn city has gone through this disaster….just seriously s t f. U

    • @7ch1no38
      @7ch1no38 Місяць тому +2

      @@catmejia6109 🤣

    • @pearlsswine
      @pearlsswine Місяць тому

      ​@@7ch1no38Jesus Christ, you're barely literate.

  • @ronbelanger4113
    @ronbelanger4113 Місяць тому

    Zero surprise, profit is king in USA.

  • @aaronramirez2610
    @aaronramirez2610 Місяць тому

    If you see something, don't say anything, other wise you will be know as a snitch,and no one wants 2b a snitch.

  • @tempe1d
    @tempe1d Місяць тому +6

    Wait its biden fault yeah? 😂😂😂

    • @helloidharbl6753
      @helloidharbl6753 Місяць тому +4

      The shrinkflation and high rent prices, yes.

    • @tempe1d
      @tempe1d Місяць тому

      @@helloidharbl6753 he made it hot and the storms in the atlantic oceans. 🤣🤣🤣 wait. Biden made the world spin. Impeach him now and stop the flat earth from spinning

    • @orlandor7825
      @orlandor7825 Місяць тому +2

      Bidenomics at its finest!🤡😂

  • @philoctetes_wordsworth
    @philoctetes_wordsworth Місяць тому

    Sounds like texas, SOP to me.

  • @jbertrand12345
    @jbertrand12345 Місяць тому

    Texas sounds horrible.

  •  Місяць тому

    Its called capitalism

  • @frankt5987
    @frankt5987 Місяць тому

    I thought this was a capitalists society not a socialist one. Since when are businesses a human rights group.

  • @dons3073
    @dons3073 Місяць тому

    Cheap trick

  • @JL-fx2cd
    @JL-fx2cd Місяць тому +1

    Come on... its texas... free market, right? This should be ok...

    • @bobbygetsbanned6049
      @bobbygetsbanned6049 Місяць тому

      It should be ok, because it is a free market. These same people cry when the shelves are empty because the stores weren't allowed to raise prices to prevent people from hoarding. Then they will cry we need limits on what people can buy because they don't want the free market to do it's thing.

  • @DudeSweet072
    @DudeSweet072 Місяць тому +2

    Dont like the price, dont buy it.

  • @bobbygetsbanned6049
    @bobbygetsbanned6049 Місяць тому +1

    Oh now yall are mad about prices but when Biden doubled prices in 2 years yall didn't complain and are ready to vote for him again.

    • @mike_w-tw6jd
      @mike_w-tw6jd Місяць тому

      it was hunter's laptops fault

  • @Needglory23
    @Needglory23 Місяць тому

    😂😂😂

  • @sharont1
    @sharont1 Місяць тому +2