Sentences with phrase «by jacking up»

She has had a series of sellers who dropped $ 3 - = 50K + on a badly planned kitchen remodel and they aren't happy that they can't recover the money by jacking up the sale price.

What concerns me with this is that someone actually, in spite of the numerous issues with the Competition Bureau we've had here in Canada, wrote an article suggesting that listing agents tell the sellers that by jacking up their commission they might, maybe, possibly, entice a buyer to pay more than the property's market value because the object is to get unethical buyer reps to steer their buyer to that property.

PED's concern that ``... listing agents («could» — my word input, not the original author's) tell the sellers that by jacking up their commission they might, maybe, possibly entice a buyer to pay more than the property's market value because the object is to get unethical buyer reps to steer their buyer to that property.»

You can argue that you've had no moving violations in ten years, and that may be true, but you're costing your auto insurance company money and that's never a good thing — simply because they'll get their money back by jacking up your premiums.

Combined with a recent deficit in the State Highway Patrol officers on the road, insurance companies have been reacting to increased claims by jacking up premiums.

You would think a state that brags on its license plates about its «Smiling Faces» might consider it prudent to try to reduce smoking by jacking up prices, but Sanford doesn't think the $ 125 million in Medicaid funding and $ 5 million toward cancer research are worthwhile goals unless there is a concomitant reduction in some other tax.

(Dan wouldn't recommend this method to others, mind you — the house has been gradually sinking over the last several years, and he recently had to repair a snapped lag bolt by jacking up the house and inserting some heavy - duty shims, with the help of his dad.)

Banks used to be able to make money off late payers by jacking up interest rates as soon as a cardholder missed a due date.

Experts say the government would likely rake in less revenue by jacking up taxes on the rich, particularly from financially savvy Canadians whose incomes barely qualify for the top bracket.

These in - house lenders are known to take advantage of the desperation of their subprime customers by jacking up interest rates and charging ridiculously high down payments — all on top of potentially charging as much as two - to - three times what the car is actually worth.

If Amazon tries to profit from market share by jacking up book prices (and the evidence seems to be that it is trying to move the market in the opposite direction) what is stopping me from getting my books elsewhere?

Also if you check around, One reasion ebooks are growing is that they offer a greater value to geeks / techheads, when you take the value away by jacking up the price... well you can follow the logical path im sure......

If tires are on a vehicle parked for a long period, the weight of the vehicle needs to be taken off the tires by jacking it up or removing the tires.

So, lets» start by jacking up the suspected wheel and checking for loose or broken parts.

Coffee and conventional energy drinks mask your fatigue by jacking you up on sky - high doses of caffeine and an amino acid called taurine.

They propose that injecting fluid quickly may induce earthquakes by jacking up reservoir pressure more drastically and over a larger area than adding it more slowly would.

«It's unacceptable for a health care company to put life - saving medicine out of people's reach by jacking up prices,» said Stringer, although he stopped short of saying the city pension funds would divest from Mylan.

Of course, it would also help by jacking up the price a lot, too.

On the one hand, yes, he didn't force it by jacking up bad shots like he would have done in years past and did a good job of getting his teammates involved.

Liberals counter that during a recession you need more consumption, not investment; and you can afford to give significant benefits to practically everybody just by jacking up the tax rate on the richest five percent.

Not exact matches

While Jack's eventual death had already been established by the time - jumping series, the cause of his passing had been left up in the air.

«Crock - Pot understands the concerns brought up by last night's episode of This Is Us, and we too are heartbroken by the latest development in Jack's storyline,» the company said.

Technology mid-caps CGI Group of Montreal and Macdonald Dettwiler & Associates of Richmond, B.C., made strategic international acquisitions earlier this year that will jack up their revenues by billions of dollars.

According to a recent study from Kaiser, to make up for the loss of CSR payments, insurers would have to jack up the price of premiums by an average of 19 % more than the current projected increase for 2018.

Responding to Tory charges that the NDP's proposed cap - and - trade system would wind up raising gas prices by 10 cents per litre, Jack Layton blamed Stephen Harper «s subsidies to big oil companies and support for the harmonized sales tax in Ontario for higher gas prices.

In recent months, the airport's remaining clutch of small operators and private pilots allege they've had their leases terminated or their rents jacked up by as much as 300 % — all of which has landed Porter in court yet again.

Jack Reed can see the recovery taking hold at his family's 109 - year - old clothing store in Tupelo, Mississippi, with sales buoyed in part by the paychecks tied to a Toyota plant up the road and rising confidence that the jobs are here to stay.

If you haven't followed this story, you'll remember Shkreli from his fame two years ago, when his biotech firm, Turing Pharmaceuticals, acquired the patent to a drug used to treat malaria, cancer and aids, and jacked up the retail price by more than 5,000 percent.

Jack got his start stringing by watching the videos that East Coast Dyes put up on YouTube.

After PayPal: Regarded as a very useful person to have around at a start - up, Rabois went onto hold senior positions at LinkedIn (more on that in a minute), Max Levchin's Slide (a company responsible for slideshows and animations in social networks) and electronic payment firm Square (founded by Twitter's Jack Dorsey).

By the time he lumbers out of bed — 6 a.m. — Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt have already been up for half an hour.

The latest boost is the plan backed by top business leaders, including billionaire tech investors Bill Gates and Jack Ma, to set up a $ 1 billion fund for the development of innovative energy technologies.

Mobile payments company Square Inc, headed by Twitter Inc Chief Executive Jack Dorsey, said it expects its initial public offering to price at between $ 11 and $ 13 per share, valuing the company up to $ 4.2 billion.

You can speed up this process exponentially by modeling people who've already been successful, which is why we've focused so intently on money masters such as Warren Buffett, Ray Dalio, Jack Bogle, and David Swensen.

In a nutshell, Netflix has been removing the discount that many subscribers had on the streaming service since they signed up, and that has meant a rise in people cancelling their accounts, upset by the jacked - up price.

The cost estimate of the second phase remains at $ 8.9 billion and is not at risk of being jacked up by the same factors that affected the first.

You can learn a lot about the ethics of pricing by contemplating why hardwares stores generally didn't jack up their prices.

Many resellers are jacking up the price by double or more.

While consumer cards are governed by the CARD Act, which prevents issuers from increasing interest rates on existing debt unless an accountholder is at least 60 days delinquent, issuers can arbitrarily jack up business card rates whenever the mood strikes them.

By threatening a blackout, Justice argues, Time Warner's Turner networks can jack up prices for networks such as CNN, TNT and TBS.

Most goods sold in Hawaii must arrive either by boat or by plane, which jacks up the price considerably.

Even if the Fed jacks up rates from 0.25 % to 2 %, the 10 - year yield will probably increase by LESS than the 1.75 % increase.

It was 2015 when Martin Shkreli, then CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals and the notorious «pharma bro,» jacked up the cost of the lifesaving drug Daraprim by 5,000 percent.

The nationwide analysis, released Thursday by California's insurance exchange, said repeal of the Affordable Care Act's «individual mandate» to hold insurance is the main driver, jacking up rates by 7 percent to 15 percent in 2019 and up to 10 percent in the following two years, as younger and / or healthier people decide not to get coverage.

So my portfolio value went down by say 20 %, but I'm gonna jack up my withdrawal rate by a little bit more, say maybe, I'm gonna multiply my withdrawal rate by 1.1.

Others are speculating that the park companies are getting a price hike out of the way in early 2014 just so that they can add on another price hike before the year is over, without getting as much grief for jacking up prices by, say, $ 10 or $ 12 all at once.

Probably, true, there are lots of houses in LA and OC brought up by investors that jacked the price up, but with rising interest rates and a limit of the mortgage deduction it might not work as much in the future.

Start - up business advice of the «look how fast and easy it is» variety is not limited to fly - by - night get rich quick websites selling entrepreneur kits and Jack in the Beanstalk magic business growing beans.

The B.C. Liberals told British Columbians one thing about the cost of the B.C. Place roof throughout the election campaign, only to turn around and jack up the budget by 58 per cent:

I think Christians, in general, don't know jack squat about the gay lifestyle / community nor do they really take the time to understand... their scripture says this and that's all they need (blatant ignorance — but that's life)... even those scriptures are up for contention as noted earlier by Trey.