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Re:Hotel booking sites overcharge Bay Area customers by unsupp0rted on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @05:18PM (#42704716)
Either all selling is predatory or none of it is.

I’m in the former camp- it’s predatory and our prosperity is built on it.

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Re:Hotel booking sites overcharge Bay Area customers by brookst on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @05:28PM (#42704820)
"Either all or none" is a very questionable heuristic for anything.

It is possible that price gouging after a natural disaster is predatory, while action pricing for one-of-a-kind memorabilia is not.

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Re:Hotel booking sites overcharge Bay Area customers by darth_avocado on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @05:23PM (#42704770)
Supply demand dynamics only work for optional spending and in market segments that have real competition.
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