Sunday Paper Price Increase (costs, business, pay)

[Lowexpectations]

Originally Posted by Azure110

I didnt buy the paper for coupons. The value in the paper (to me) is the news content and the value of that in the Express News doesn't even hit $2 so I stopped buying long ago. My opinion as TexasRedneck already pointed out.

Coupons can be easily found elsewhere for free.

My questions were specific to another poster's response about the paper, if it didn't apply to you that might have been the start of the confusion.

[Paka]

Originally Posted by Lowexpectations

Do you really have any grounds to call it price gouging other than your personal opinion or emotions? Also if you found value in the coupons for 2.00 is that value reduced to 0.00 since the price increased 1.00?

YES!!!! If the actual cost required it, the increase in price would have reflected it. To "increase" the price by 50% shows that they are trying to recoup monies lost thru other avenues, because they would have raised the price a LOT EARLIER had they been suffering a "loss".

Lets say you are buying a car....if they raise the price $2K you are like, oh well, I guess it is the cost of doing business. If they decided, one day, to raise the cost by 33 1/3% would you agree????

[Azure110]

Originally Posted by Paka

YES!!!! If the actual cost required it, the increase in price would have reflected it. To "increase" the price by 50% shows that they are trying to recoup monies lost thru other avenues, because they would have raised the price a LOT EARLIER had they been suffering a "loss".

Lets say you are buying a car....if they raise the price $2K you are like, oh well, I guess it is the cost of doing business. If they decided, one day, to raise the cost by 33 1/3% would you agree????

Martin Shkreli would disagree with you.

[Lowexpectations]

Originally Posted by Paka

YES!!!! If the actual cost required it, the increase in price would have reflected it. To "increase" the price by 50% shows that they are trying to recoup monies lost thru other avenues, because they would have raised the price a LOT EARLIER had they been suffering a "loss".

Lets say you are buying a car....if they raise the price $2K you are like, oh well, I guess it is the cost of doing business. If they decided, one day, to raise the cost by 33 1/3% would you agree????

How do you know they had been losing money? That's my question, how do you know its gouging? It seems more like an emotional reaction instead of one based on logic and the actual definition of gouging

[Azure110]

"Price gouging" is a prejorative term.

A pejorative (also called a derogatory term,[1] derogative term, a term of abuse, or a term of disparagement) is a word or grammatical form expressing a low opinion of someone or something, or showing a lack of respect for someone or something.

So I think it is reasonable to consider the price increase of the newspaper by 50% as price gouging to some.

[*mud*]

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I pay 3 bux a month for front yard service on Wed And Sunday.

see if this link works..........
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https://myaccount.expressnews.com/ds...ID=593&z=00000
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[Lowexpectations]

Originally Posted by Azure110

"Price gouging" is a prejorative term.



So I think it is reasonable to consider the price increase of the newspaper by 50% as price gouging to some.

Why not incorporate the definition of price gouging?

Price gouging is a pejorative term referring to when a seller spikes the prices of goods, services or commodities to a level much higher than is considered reasonable or fair, and is considered exploitative, potentially to an unethical extent.

The practice is illegal and the texas attorney general will investigate

https://texasattorneygeneral.gov/cpd/price-gouging

[ged_782]

Originally Posted by *mud*

I pay 3 bux a month for front yard service on Wed And Sunday.

That's the new subscriber promotional rate for Wednesday & Sunday. Non-promotional rate is $26/month.

[Paka]

Originally Posted by Lowexpectations

You failed to actually address either question I asked. If there was value In the paper at 2.00 is it complelty gone at 3.00? And do you have anything to support the gouging label? Do you know the finances behind printing the paper?

Yeppers, my expectations are higher than yours! (given your selected screen name)

[Rakin]

I just go for a early morning neighborhood walk on Sunday morning and find my paper laying in peoples yards.