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Price Gouging 

Price gouging is a term for a seller pricing much higher than is considered reasonable or fair. In precise, legal usage, it is the name of a felony that applies in some of the United States only 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.
Take a $16 ticket, add $5.90 convenience charge, then add $2.20 for ordering online, and that's a 52% markup for a ticket to buy from ticketmaster.com

FIFTY PERCENT MARKUP, now THAT IS PRICE GOUGING!!!
Price Gouging by ihatescams October 6, 2009
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Price Gouging 

The act of raising the prices due to increased demand and/or low inventory of a product, service, etc.
Price gouging-The stores in the CA gold rush would price gouge because they were the only in town and the miners needed the supplies.

price gauging  

Taking advantage of people by over-charging for something.
When there is a scarce item at the store like a nintendo wii and you buy the system for $250 and you do price gauging and sell it for $600
price gauging by tiowhatever December 9, 2008